Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin
Аполлос Аполлосович Мусин-Пушкин
Apollos in 1788
Born	(1760-02-17)February 17, 1760 Saint Petersburg
Died	April 18, 1805(1805-04-18) (aged 45) Tbilisi
Occupation(s)	Chemist, plant collector

Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (Russian: Аполло́с Аполло́сович Му́син-Пу́шкин; 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. S2CID 195239801.
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.