Alexander Karpinsky
Russian-Soviet geologist and mineralogist
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Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky 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. Wikipedia
Born: January 7, 1847, Krasnoturyinsk, Russia
Died: July 15, 1936 (age 89 years), Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Russian and Soviet
Awards: Wollaston Medal
Education: Corps of Mining Engineers (1857–1866)