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Mendeleyev's Dream

Paul Strathern

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Medeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamt would fundamentally change the way we see the world. Paul Strathern tells the dramatic and entertaining story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table.

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceAward Category: Royal Society Science Book Prize -> ScienceAward Category: Science -> ScienceScience & Discovery

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Royal Society Science Book PrizeMajor2001ShortlistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Dmitri Medeleyev86%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Russia48%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    32 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.