Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

Apollo Mussin-Pushkin.

Count Apollos Apollosovich Mussin-Pushkin (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.[1]

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.[2] The genus of Puschkinia commemorates his name.[3]

References

  1. Wunschmann, Ernest (1884). General German Biography (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie) Vol. 20. Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. p. 432.
  2. "175 Years of Manufacture of Platinum Metals in Russia". Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry 76 (11): 1873–1880. 1 November 2003. doi:10.1023/B:RJAC.0000018706.43805.55.
  3. Rix, Martyn; Mathew, Brian (February 2007). "582. PUSCHKINIA PESHMENII.". Curtis's Botanical Magazine 24 (1): 54–57. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8748.2007.00561.x.