Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian chemist
Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1822
Place of Birth: Tartu, Livonia Governorate, Sweden
Date of Death: 28-Mar-1908
Profession: chemist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ??????, tr.
- Genrikh Vasil'evich Struve; 10 July 1822 – 28 March 1908) was a Baltic German chemist from the Struve family and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Struve was born in 1822 in Dorpat (Tartu), then Russian Empire.
- His father was the Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864) of German origins.
- Bernhard Wilhelm Struve (1827-1889), governor of Astrakhan and Perm, was his brother.
- The German mathematician and pedagogue Jacob Struve (1755-1841) was his grandfather.
- In 1845, he graduated from the University of Tartu and continued working there in the field of chemistry till 1849.
- In 1846, via arrangement by his father Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Genrikh spent a month visiting Jöns Jacob Berzelius who was impressed with both the father and his son.
- In 1849, Struve moved to the Mineralogy Department in Saint Petersburg and worked there till 1867.
- In 1867, he became a criminal medicine expert in Tiflis.
- There, he used not only chemical, but also early photographical (1885) methods for criminal analysis.
- He had also participated in the chemical analysis of mineral springs of the area, in particular of the Matsesta spring in Sochi in 1886.Struve married Pauline Fuss, a great-granddaughter of Leonhard Euler.Scientific work of Struve was mostly related to inorganic and analytical chemistry.
- In 1853, he published first in Russia tables for evaluating chemical analyses.
- The same year, he suggested use of ammonium molybdate for detection of arsenic in criminal medicine and in mineral analysis, such as indicating traces of arsenic in antimony.
- He also synthesized a range of double salts of potassium, sodium, chromium, iron, aluminium, molybdenum and tungsten.
- In 1876, Struve became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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