Scientists in Saint Petersburg

The atlas holds 5 people and 17 moments here, from 1727 to 1969. The most recorded lives are Dmitri Mendeleev, Leonhard Euler and Alfred Nobel.

Notable people

  1. Dmitri Mendeleev

    from 1850 to 1907

    7 moments here

    Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…

  2. Leonhard Euler

    from 1727 to 1783

    5 moments here

    Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, and polymath. Euler’s documented life moved from Basel and nearby Riehen to Saint Petersburg,…

  3. Alfred Nobel

    from 1842 to 1862

    3 moments here

    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896) developed dynamite and other explosives, built businesses…

  4. Joseph Stalin

    in 1917

    1 moment here

    Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…

  5. Margaret Thatcher

    in 1969

    1 moment here

    British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…

Moments

  1. 1727 Arrival at Saint Petersburg Leonhard Euler
  2. 1741 Departure from Saint Petersburg for Berlin Leonhard Euler
  3. 1766 Return to Saint Petersburg Leonhard Euler
  4. 1771 Home destroyed by fire Leonhard Euler
  5. 1783 Death in Saint Petersburg Leonhard Euler
  6. 1842 Family relocation to Saint Petersburg Alfred Nobel
  7. 1850 Relocation and enrollment in Saint Petersburg Dmitri Mendeleev
  8. 1852 Work at his father's Saint Petersburg workshop Alfred Nobel
  9. 1856 Return to Saint Petersburg Dmitri Mendeleev
  10. 1862 Controlled nitroglycerin detonation Alfred Nobel
  11. 1862 Marriage at Nikolaev Engineering Institute church Dmitri Mendeleev
  12. 1864 Professor at Saint Petersburg Technological Institute Dmitri Mendeleev
  13. 1867 Tenure and inorganic chemistry teaching Dmitri Mendeleev
  14. 1893 Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures Dmitri Mendeleev
  15. 1907 Death in Saint Petersburg Dmitri Mendeleev
  16. 1917 Returns to revolutionary Petrograd Joseph Stalin
  17. 1969 Visit to Leningrad Margaret Thatcher

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