Alexander Karpinsky

Alexander Karpinsky
Александр Карпинский
Born7 January 1847[1]
Died15 July 1936 (1936-07-16) (aged 89)
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
NationalityRussian
AwardsHayden Memorial Geological Award (1897)
Wollaston Medal (1916)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
Signature

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (Russian: Александр Петрович Карпинский, trl. Aljeksandr Pjetrovič Karpinskij; 7 January 1847 [O.S. 26 December 1846] – 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.[1]