Karl Ernst Claus
Russian scientist
Died when: 68 years 62 days (818 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Karl Ernst Claus (also Karl Klaus or Carl Claus, Russian: Карл Ка́рлович Кла́ус, 22 January 1796 – 24 March 1864) was a German-Russian chemist and naturalist of Baltic German origin.
Claus was a professor at Kazan State University and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.He was primarily known as a chemist and discoverer of the chemical element ruthenium, which he named after his homeland of Russia, but also as one of the first scientists who applied quantitative methods in botany.
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