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Dmitri Mendeleev
The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
After Dmitri Mendeleevâs father, Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev, became blind in 1834, his mother, Mariya Dmitriyevna Kornileva, supported the family by operating a small glass factory that was owned by her family in a nearby town. This arrangement continued until the factory was destroyed by fire in December 1848.12