<P> Mendeleev also investigated the composition of petroleum, and helped to found the first oil refinery in Russia . He recognized the importance of petroleum as a feedstock for petrochemicals . He is credited with a remark that burning petroleum as a fuel "would be akin to firing up a kitchen stove with bank notes ." </P> <P> In 1905, Mendeleev was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . The following year the Nobel Committee for Chemistry recommended to the Swedish Academy to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1906 to Mendeleev for his discovery of the periodic system . The Chemistry Section of the Swedish Academy supported this recommendation . The Academy was then supposed to approve the Committee's choice, as it has done in almost every case . Unexpectedly, at the full meeting of the Academy, a dissenting member of the Nobel Committee, Peter Klason, proposed the candidacy of Henri Moissan whom he favored . Svante Arrhenius, although not a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, had a great deal of influence in the Academy and also pressed for the rejection of Mendeleev, arguing that the periodic system was too old to acknowledge its discovery in 1906 . According to the contemporaries, Arrhenius was motivated by the grudge he held against Mendeleev for his critique of Arrhenius's dissociation theory . After heated arguments, the majority of the Academy voted for Moissan . The attempts to nominate Mendeleev in 1907 were again frustrated by the absolute opposition of Arrhenius . </P> <P> In 1907, Mendeleev died at the age of 72 in Saint Petersburg from influenza . 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