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Kaji, Masanori (2002) D. I. Mendeleev s concept of chemical elements and the principles of chemistry. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 27, 4-16. 

Chemistry—History—19th century. I Kaji, Masanori, 1956- editor. 

I acknowledge many scholars of the periodic table from diverse fields, including Peter Atkins, Henry Bent, Bernadette Bensaude, Nathan Brooks, Edwin Constable, John Emsley, Michael Gordin, Ray Hefferlin, William Jensen, Herbert Kaesz, Masanori Kaji, Maurice Kibler, Bruce King, Mike Laing, Laurence Lavelle, Guillermo Restrepo, Dennis Rouvray, Oliver Sacks, Eugen Schwarz, Philip Stewart, Mark Winters and many others. 

NATHAN M. BROOKS, MASANORI KAJI AND ELENA ZAITSEVA... 

Masanori Kaji Group of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology... 

The Japanese historian Masanori Kaji has conducted a detailed survey of all eight successive editions of Mendeleev s book in the original Russian. By study-... 

MASANORI KAJI, HELGE KRAGH, AND GAbOR PALL6... 

Part VI includes Chapter 13 (by Masanori Kaji) about Japan, one of the few countries outside the Western world that participated in modern scientific research in the nineteenth century. The discovery of the periodic law in 1869-1871 and its dissemination in the 1880s coincided with the institutionalization of chemistry in Japan after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. This factor helped facilitate the appreciation of the periodic system as a basis for chemistry there. Most of the first-generation Japanese chemistry professors accepted without much skepticism the periodic law as one of the recent developments in chemistry in Europe. Furthermore, around this time, Japanese chemists began to contribute to the study of the periodic system. For instance, Ogawa Masataka announced the discovery of a new element called nipponium in 1908, which much later turned out to be rhenium. 

Figure 2.3 The Bronze Monument dedicated to Mendeleev with the Periodic Table in the wall located in the front yard of the former Chief Bureau of Weight and Measures in St. Petersburg. The statue was made by 1. Ya. Gintsburg (1859-1939), based on Mendeleev s portrait in 1890 as a university professor, and erected in 1932. The periodic table on the wall was placed there in 1935. Photographed by Masanori Kaji.

Nathan M. Brooks, Masanori Kaji, and Elena Zaitseva, The Formation of the Russian Chemical Society and Its Development until 1914 In European Chemical Societies Comparative Analysis of Demarcation, ed. Anita Kildebaek Nielson and Sofia Strbafiovi (London Royal College of Chemistry, 2008), 281-304. 

Masanori Kaji, Menddeev s Discovery of the Periodic Law The Origin and the Reception, Foundations of Chemistry 5 (2003) 189-214, p. 207. See also Masanori Kaji, Social Background of the Discovery and the Reception of the Periodic Law of the Elements, Atjtjo/s of the New York Academy of Sciences, 988,1-5 (2003) and the chapter on Russian case in this book. 

Ruiz-Castell, Pieter Thyssen, Antonio Garda Belmar, and Masanori Kaji for their comments and suggestions. 

This section is based on my paper Masanori Kaji, Ogawa s Discovery of a New Chemical Element Nipponium The Emergence of Modern Chemistry Research in Japan and Its Social Background, Historia Scientiarum, 12 (3) (2003) 215-218. 

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Edited by Masanori Kaji, Helge Kragh, and Gabor Pallo... 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pubhcation Data Early responses to the periodic system / edited By Masanori Kaji, Helge Kragh, and G4bor Pallo. 

The idea of a comparative project on the early reception of the periodic system occurred to one of the editors (Masanori Kaji) during the 6th Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP) meeting in Istanbul in June, 2008. 

Gestated under the warm sunny skies in Istanbul, this idea materialized into a book project thanks to many colleagues who are also interested in the history of chemistry. The contributors and editors, especially Masanori Kaji, wish to express special thanks to Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Carsten Reinhardt, William Brock, Michael Gordin, and Eric Scerri, who were of immense help during the various stages of the project. 

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Masanori Kaji is Professor of the History of Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include history of chemistry in Russian and in Japan and environmental history. He is the author of Mendeleev s Discovery of the Periodic Law of Chemical Elements (in Japanese), Sapporo Hokkaido University Press, 1997. 

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