Mendeleev’s Visit to Oxford and Cambridge in 1894
25 October 2024
The British scientific community frequently honoured Mendeleev with honorary degrees and awards. In February 1888, for example, Mendeleev was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in May of the same year he became an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Later, in 1894, he received honorary doctorates from two of Britain’s oldest universities — Cambridge and Oxford. "Every scientific honour that this country could pay was awarded to him, and he was profoundly touched and deeply grateful for the sympathy and appreciation thus extended to him," recalled T. E. Thorpe (Nature, February 1907).