Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

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.

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