Mendeleev's periodic system of the elements first appeared in Russian, in his book, Osnovy khimii [Elements of Chemistry], published in February, 1869, and it was immediately abstracted into German in the ?Zeitschrift f�r Chemie.  It also appeared in two papers (1869, 1870) in the ?Zhurnal Russkago Fiziko-Khimicheskago Obshchestva, and finally, as the German translation of the 1870 Zhurnal paper in Liebigs Annalen der Chemie.  The process of deciding which of these competing candidates should be recognized as the breakthrough paper will be discussed, and a brief account of the presentation ceremony at St. Petersburg State University on October 31, 2013, will be given.

Russian or German? First or fourth? The Citation for Chemical Breakthroughs award to St. Petersburg State University for Mendeleev's periodic system of the elements

248th National Meeting (2014)

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