Alexander Karpinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Karpinsky

Russian geologist and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1846

Place of Birth: Krasnoturyinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 15-Jul-1936

Profession: professor, geologist, paleontologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (Russian: ????????? ???????? ??????????; 7 January 1847 (NS) – 15 July 1936) was a prominent Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist, and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and later Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1917–1936.