Apollo Mussin-Pushkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

Russian scientist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1760

Place of Birth: Tobolsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1805

Profession: physicist, chemist, botanist

Zodiac 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.