Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve

Heinrich Wilhelm von[1] Struve (Russian: Генрих Васильевич Струве, tr.

His father was the Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864) of German origins.

In 1845, he graduated from the University of Tartu and continued working there in the field of chemistry till 1849.

[3] In 1849, Struve moved to the Mineralogy Department in Saint Petersburg and worked there till 1867.

He also synthesized a range of double salts of potassium, sodium, chromium, iron, aluminium, molybdenum and tungsten.