Mendeleev's Business Card - Periodic Table of Videos

[johnmartinez123]

I love the gloves on your hands! Very realistic. Almost makes it seem like you have no gloves on.

[pepsibookcat]

This is the reverence with which I would treat one of the Professor's business cards if I had one!

[hicamaman]

Arrrgh, why aren't you wearing gloves?

[noplivo2]

Менделеева прославили на весь мир, а за ним и россию

[2muchgametime]

Mendeleev was a classy fellow.

[djmussy18]

WOW, mind blowing.

[ailalelo]

Let's see Mendeleev's card... Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness

of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark...

[dudev]

@ailalelo

How'd a nitwit like Mendeleev get so tasteful? 

[dgfia]

great...

[Andymakov]

1:48

voice: "..university of Saint-Petersburg."

subtitles: "..university of some pizza spoke."

%-)

[MichaelKingsfordGray]

Utterly ffascinating!

[seahawkers101]

After being introduced to aerogels I would like to request it as a future topic. Perhaps you guys can make some? =)

[MrGuitarZeppelin]

Look at that subtle off white coloring, a tasteful thickness of it. Oh my god, it even has a watermark!

[werdnativ]

@periodicvideos "PF 1902" also explains why the second card was in there: it's a New Year's greeting card!

[werdnativ]

@periodicvideos Are you sure it says "12.1.1902"? It looks more like "PF", or "Pour Féliciter", which was written to say "Happy New Year". The postmark says Dec 29, 1901, so it wouldn't make sense for the card to have a later date written on it.

[beardymonger]

Mendeleev's hair wins @2:28

[quaxk]

you should only touch those with cotton gloves, skin oil on paper turns yellow eventually

[jaydominic]

2 people are jealous of the beautiful handwriting... :P

[fakemadereal]

That picture of Mendeleev made him look a little bit like Rasputin.

[Raytoolification]

if this envelope its so precious, why is this guy touching it with his handsss??

[karolis685]

So Professor Martyn speaks russian? why? :)

[Ricca2295]

@karolis685 because he's russian

[tradecycles]

@karolis685 Russians rock the world! Great people.

[culwin]

I'll trade a blue-eyes white dragon card for that.

[qweqpo4224]

@culwin no way man, a blue eyes white dragon would never cut it for that thing... hey professor, i'll trade you my slifer the sky dragon for that

[AtheistKharm]

His hand writing is epic.

[Ts6451]

Hmmm... I have a feeling Mendeleev's card may actually be a visiting/calling card, not a business card, there is a certain difference.

I expect that Dr Duncan couldn't under the rules of social etiquette of the time go to Prof. Thorpe without a formal introduction like this, so it was probably more a matter of social propriety than shyness that required him to get this letter.

[Zantaer]

Jocelyn Field Thorpe or Thomas Edward Thorpe?

[endimion17]

Scientists were always one of the first icebreakers between countries, but sincere ones.

Such a nice video, thank you.

[mrmikemanify]

cool stuff

[AlexBoiGeorge]

such a nerdgasm

[cooROPyoBODY]

make a video with funny periodic video bloopers

[periodicvideos]

@cooROPyoBODY the nottinghamscience channel is where we put extra footage and out-takes... we have done bloopers there in the past!

[ranthoron]

The modern card looks almost pathetic in comparison...

(Nothing against Prof. Poliakoff, of course!)

[hoboX10]

Why does it seem everyone back in the day had beautiful handwriting and now everyone's sucks. I write all the time but mine is awful so I know it's not the whole "the more you do it the better it gets" thing...

[passwordresetisbroke]

@hoboX10 Actually it is the more you do it the better it gets.

BUT back then you were expected to write neatly when you wrote to others, if you looked at his general notes to himself and such they would be just as untidy as your writing.

[82rah]

Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925). Wikipedia has nice group photograph of Thorpe with van't Hoff, Mendeleev and others. Does anyone know them?

[aaron2414]

who the hell are the people that keep "disliking" these videos?!?! ...must be America's 99% :-p 

[OREUS39]

Great videos! Keep up the good work!

[tehKap0w]

sounds the Prof is gonna have to order another couple of boxes of cards for the next flood of correspondence he is about to receive.

[virumoz]

Made me think — once again — what mankind lost with the Alexandrian library.

[Kissaki0]

I like the conclusion.

Great one.

[periodicvideos]

@Kissaki0 cheers!

[davidsquall351]

Cool historic business card. My great Grandma Blanch sent me letters with homemade cards when I was a kid. I kept them all in my archives.

[gregnscott]

Were you using a different camera this week brady?

[xlrv1]

And all that archival material comes to a dead stop upon the advent of emails - unless someone collects email files; but no handwriting, no stationery, no postage, no character.

[Larkinchance]

Hey, I have one of those. From Mendeleev, right?

Unfortunately, I left it on the beach and when I went back, it was gone...

[xStrawberryFields89]

He was my lecturer :D adorable! Lol

[SecularMentat]

@xStrawberryFields89 Jealous :P

[Films4You]

And DNA to clone

[rekinu5]

I LOVE this Channel , but it has become more of a history than chemistry channel :/ I miss the days when i was so eager to see a new experiment , compound/element wise... now it's all about history, with less talking about compounds and what not :(

[foodskey]

@rekinu5 more bangs coming in the new year... promise!

[MrRay523]

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[bharathpv9]

I'd certainly love to hold Mendeleev's Business Card ! It'd be a "terrific" experience [as the Professor says] !! You're very lucky Professor and you too Mr.Brady !

[Draxis32]

3:20

"[...]Scientists in different countries were already communicating, collaborating together..."

For me this shows the truth progress that education and will to discover our world can do to you, you don't care if someone is jew, black, white, speak your language or not you want to share and collaborate because that's what scientists do and they understand that we, the human being specie, should work together so that our future can be prosper.

[Fearose]

he need to see a Doctor because of his BLUE FINGER NAILS!

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

And now it's been held by you!

[Pianoguy32]

good insight into how the old society worked. No CV, No covering letter, just a letter of introduction.

[peanutboy41]

That business card is far greater than Patrick Batemans or Paul Allens

[ArtypNk]

@peanutboy41

Eggshell is for suckas.

[Marchawc]

Fascinating, from chemistry comes history. Holding Mendeleeff's business card is maybe the closest thing someone today can get to meeting him, somehow brings the legend to life.

However, if he were alive today, I wonder how he would react to this video: "It's been 110 years and my docs have been dropped on YouTube?!" ;-)

[J0LaPi]

How can I obtain one of Professor Poliakoff's business cards? You could have a contest & make that the top prize...

[Gameboygenius]

Martyn, if you see this, shouldn't your name be pronounced Poliakov, then?

[c4clive]

Oh wow, this is probably my favourite of all of your royal society archive videos! Excellently done, both of you!

[tradecycles]

Mendeleev, Karl Marx and others had big beards. Were they godly men? This question irks me. Would someone throw some light?

[Trillios]

@tradecycles Marx was a bit of a fascists but yeah i think good/smart/godly men have a great beard

[tradecycles]

@Trillios Such intelligent men believe in god :( Confuses me more.

[rietveen26]

@tradecycles why would that confuse you? I think it's fascinating even though I'm an atheist myself.

[Trillios]

@rietveen26 i agree, its a fascinating subject... you should see what i wrote to Tradecycles, thats my main theory about religion, its just a matter of having someone to look up to

[Trillios]

@rietveen26 i would also like to add, im not a complete atheist as i partly belive in Russia..... yes quite a strange thing to belive in.... and maybe a tiny tiny but putin

[Alphasys]

@tradecycles You should see it in light of the times. Science hadn't explained enough about the natural world yet. Also, (nearly) everyone in those days was born in a religious family and indoctrinated.

[Trillios]

@tradecycles i think that believing in good is a good thing, but not like the mainstream way, but like you want to stop doing something you invent a god that prohibits for example smoking. I think Marx at a good explenation the "good phenomena" and that is that you need a drug to help you.... maybe to get smarter, stronger, fatter, healthier, unhealthier and the list continues, basically beacuse you dont have the balls to do something you "virtualy" create more "ball"

[Alphasys]

@tradecycles The question if they were godly men should be seen separate from the beard issue. Back in those days, a beard was "the mark of a man" and fashionable. Just like hats were fashionable in those days. Shaving wasn't as widespread a practice in those days.

[Sockheadableful]

NOOOOOO, The professor had a haircut. 

[doubleja]

@Sockheadableful

Why is everyone so adamant about calling him "The Professor"?

It just seems so unnecessarily over-the-top. His name is Martyn, and along with Brady makes interesting videos on youtube about science,

[EyItsKimron]

Im guessing that this was recorded around November 11, cause of the Poppy :P

[Boonenoob]

This is fascinating.

[pvskpraveen]

probably Mendeleeff sent one card in 1901 and some one "for some reason" added another card later to the envelope, which was signed in 1902

[2nd3rd1st]

I have to say though, if I would actually come up to Mendeleeff and say "Hello, I'm Professor Poliakoff" he would probably just scowl at me and accuse me of identity theft!

And it wouldn't be hard to prove, I'm as bald as a mole rat.

[AstAMoore]

If anyone’s interested, the back of the envelope reads: “For the benefit of the St. Petersburg Board of Guardians of the Sisters of the Red Cross.”

[Dieselspot]

The postage stamp says 1901 but the date on the business card says 1902.....

[arleas]

@Dieselspot it must have been mailed out Dec 29th 1901 and it got there January 12th 1902.

[kingpopaul]

Fun how is card is written in French.

[ilikemoney8]

so how old is this letter

[HWGuyEG]

I want Poliakoff 's card, I'd put it into the corner of my signed Bill Nye picture. :D

[8wild8creature8]

So you might be coming to Russia?

[Zee96969696]

do a video on 'game theory'

[andycapo123]

Great stuff!! and of course we should thank him for setting the standard for vodka!

[aminorityofone]

3 in the morning and a new video, bed can wait

[rogerdotlee]

@aminorityofone Sleep is highly overrated.

[revomusicman]

SCIENCE!

[c0rse]

Wow, that is this really quite amazing.

[zythepsarian]

84th viewer, i feel like im a chem student

[gulllars]

@zythepsarian me too. Even though i was a chem student at university for two years before changing to Computer Engineering :)

The people i studied chemistry with felt like true peers, and for the first time in my life i was among mainly similar minded people. I had to quit to follow my passion, but i still love chemistry as a hobby.

[bemanos12345]

nice

[taciturnme]

I've learnt countless things thanks to this awesome channel. Thanks! :D

[DrforkintheLung300]

I want one, were this Mendeleev guys so he can make me some?

[FrozenHaxor2]

@DrforkintheLung300 Really?

[OnlyBlix]

Very cool.

[porkypine1888]

:D!

[CountingDayz]

first XD

[zomgerln]

@CountingDayz go away.

[CountingDayz]

@zomgerln lol I got a bit overexcited.