Apollo Mussin-Pushkin
Russian scientist
Died when: 45 years 60 days (542 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (Russian: ??????´? ??????´????? ??´???-??´????;February 17, 1760 – April 18, 1805) was a Russian chemist and plant collector.He led a botanical expedition to the Caucasus in 1802 with his friend botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.
In 1797, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.He was a member of the Russian mining board and developed several new methods of refining and processing of platinum.
The genus of Puschkinia commemorates his name.
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