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Dmitri Mendeleev
The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
Dmitri Mendeleev was appointed professor of chemical technology at the University of St. Petersburg in 1865, following the defense of his doctoral dissertation. He subsequently became the professor of general chemistry at the same institution in 1867, a position he held until 1890.1