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Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist1834 to 1907

Wikidata names Alexander Voskresensky as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Alexander Voskresensky

Students on Wikidata4

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Gavriil Gustavson
born 1842
stated by Wikidata
Dmitri Konovalov
born 1856
stated by Wikidata
Veniamin Klyachkin
born 1858
stated by Wikidata
Boris Weinberg
born 1871

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexander Voskresensky

Taught6

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexey Potylitsyn
born 1845
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Valery Gemilian
born 1851
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dmitri Konovalov
born 1856
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Leonid Radin
born 1860
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
born 1863
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexander Baykov
born 1870

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataAlexander Voskresensky
2 steps up
stated by WikidataGermain Henri Hess

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 8 people: 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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1850 to 1855
Main Pedagogical Institute
studied
1855 to 1856
Richelieu Lyceum
worked
1857 to 1890
Imperial St. Petersburg University
worked
1863 to 1872
St. Petersburg Practical Institute of Technology
worked
undated
Saint Petersburg State University
studied
undated
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
studied
undated
Saint Petersburg State University
worked

At a glance

known as: chemist, physicist, university teacher, economist
fields: chemistry, physics, economics, geology, metrology, chemical element, periodic table
degrees: Doctor, Saint Petersburg State University, 1865, Doctor of Sciences, from 1865
awards: Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, Copley Medal, 1905, Faraday Lectureship Prize, 1889, Demidov Prize, 1862, Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of the White Eagle, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class, Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class, Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Davy Medal, 1882, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1892, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1874
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1892, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, from 1900, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, from 1904, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1905, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from 1876, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 1900, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1889, American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, National Academy of Sciences, from 1903, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1893, Free Economic Society, from 1866, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1893
notable works: periodic table
Wikipedia: in 179 languages

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Elsewhere6

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stated by WikidataWikipediaDmitri Mendeleev
stated by WikidataWikidataQ9106
stated by WikidataVIAF71528062
stated by WikidataGND118641069
stated by WikidataIdRef027783952
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109142724

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@misc{academicancestry_Q9106,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Dmitri Mendeleev: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q9106},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Dmitri Mendeleev: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q9106