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Alexander Karpinsky

Russian geologist and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847-1936) · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1846 to 1936 · aged 89

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.

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1936Died15 July 19361916Order of Saint Alexander NevskyAwardWollaston MedalAward1900Spendiarov PrizeAward1897Hayden Memorial Geological AwardAward1892Constantin MedalAward1846Born26 December 1846

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Wollaston Medal1916
Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky1916
Spendiarov Prize1900
Hayden Memorial Geological Award1897
Constantin Medal1892
Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
Order of the White Eagle
Order of St. Vladimir
Order of Saint Anna, 1st class
Order of Saint Stanislaus
Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
Royal Order of the Polar Star
Order of the Crown of Romania
Order of the Sacred Treasure
Order of the Crown

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Russia
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1846 to 1936 · aged 89