Apollo Mussin-Pushkin
Template:Short description Template:Expand Russian Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (Template:Langx; 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]
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- 1760 births
- 1805 deaths
- Chemists from the Russian Empire
- Nobility from the Russian Empire
- 18th-century botanists from the Russian Empire
- Inventors from the Russian Empire
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the Royal Society