МЕНДЕЛЕЕВ: Как он УВИДЕЛ таблицу элементов во сне — и почему это наглая ЛОЖЬ!

This biography of Dmitri Mendeleev debunks the main myth of science. Learn how he supposedly saw the periodic table in a dream, and why this famous legend is a blatant lie, invented by himself for intrusive journalists. For decades, we've been told the beautiful tale of sudden insight. But the real story of the creation of the Periodic Table is far more dramatic. It is the result of years of hard labor, sleepless nights, and brilliant logic ("chemical solitaire"). We'll explore why Mendeleev was credited with inventing vodka, how he engaged in industrial espionage to discover the secret of gunpowder, and why he flew in a hot air balloon. This is the story of a genius without the gloss! 00:00:00 — The Myth of the Periodic Table in a Dream 00:00:59 — Mendeleev's Reaction to the Myth 00:02:41 — Birth in Tobolsk and Family 00:04:40 — Mother and the Glass Factory 00:08:50 — Fire, Father's Death, and Mother's Decision 00:09:39 — Journey to Moscow and St. Petersburg 00:11:28 — Mother's Death 00:13:19 — Difficult Years of Study 00:15:12 — Graduation from Institute with a Gold Medal 00:16:12 — Scientific Career and Trip to Germany 00:17:07 — Congress of Chemists in Karlsruhe 00:18:52 — The Problem of Chaos in Chemistry 00:23:33 — A Textbook as an Impetus to discovery 00:25:29 — The "Chemical Solitaire" Method 00:28:31 — Discovery of the Periodic Law 00:29:24 — First Draft of the Table, February 1869 00:32:10 — Refining the Table, 1869–1871 00:34:00 — Empty Cells and Predictions of the Elements 00:37:34 — Confirmation: Gallium, Scandium, Germanium 00:39:22 — Triumph of Reason 00:40:35 — The Myth of Mendeleev's Vodka 00:43:22 — The Versatility of a Scientist 00:46:16 — The Origin of the Myth of Sleep 00:49:31 — Mendeleev Refutes the Legend 00:50:29 — Why Myth is Convenient 00:52:32 — Newton, the Apple, and Others Myths about insight 00:53:28 — The danger of myths about luck 00:54:38 — Mendeleev's truth about work 00:57:29 — Why Mendeleev fought the myth 00:59:27 — A question for yourself 01:00:22 — The periodic table was achieved through suffering, not dreaming Sources used in the creation of the video: https://www.muctr.ru/university/about... D. I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia — official biography on the website of the university named after the scientist. Academic resource. Full chronology: birth on January 27 (February 8), 1834, in Tobolsk; father Ivan Pavlovich, headmaster of the gymnasium; trip to Heidelberg in 1859–1861 with Sechenov and Borodin; doctoral dissertation "On Compounds of Alcohol with Water" in 1865; dissertation defense in 1856 at St. Petersburg University. https://elementy.ru/nauchno-populyarn... Elementy.ru — popular science library, article "Biography of a Russian genius." A serious academic resource on the natural sciences. Details on the creation of the Periodic Law: the first issue of "Fundamentals of Chemistry" in the summer of 1868, difficulties with systematization, translation of the article into German, and the discovery of gallium by Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 as confirmation. https://www.sstu.ru/nauka/iypt/biogra... Saratov State Technical University named after Gagarin — academic biography. Flight in the "Russky" hot air balloon on August 7, 1887, to observe a total solar eclipse; inclusion of noble gases in the zero group together with William Ramsay in 1900; substantiation of the foundations of the theory of solutions during different periods of his career. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5812426 Kommersant — "Biography and achievements of the great Russian scientist." Born February 8, 1834. Recognition of the Periodic Law in the 1880s after the discovery of gallium (1875), scandium (1879), and germanium (1886), predicted in 1870 as eka-aluminum, eka-boron, and eka-silicon. The legend of the table appeared in a dream during his lifetime. https://science.mail.ru/articles/4394... Science Mail.ru — "How the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements Was Discovered." February 1869 — formulation of the Periodic Law, a methodological breakthrough: not forcing reality to fit the table, but allowing the table to reflect reality, deliberately leaving empty spaces for undiscovered elements with predictions of density, valence, and compound types.