Dmitri Mendeleev was not a prophet in Russia because the Tsar (the emperor of Russia) did not like his liberal politics. He was not elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, but in the rest of the world his name was magic.

Dmitri Mendeleev was not a prophet in Russia because the Tsar (the emperor of Russia) did not like his liberal politics. He was not elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, but in the rest of the world his name was magic.