Alexander Karpinsky

Alexander Petrovich Karpinski (Russian Александр Петрович Карпинский, Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky English transcription; born January 7, 1847 in Krasnoturjinsk; † July 15, 1936 in Udelnaya in Moscow) was a Russian geologist, paleontologist, mineralogist and petrologist.

Karpinski came from a family of mining engineers and studied from 1857 mining and mineralogy in Saint Petersburg with the conclusion of 1866. Afterwards, he was from 1869 to 1885 professor at the local Mining Institute. 1885 to 1916 he was director of the Imperial mining research in Russia. From 1886 he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which he was president from 1917 until his death. As president of the Academy of Sciences in the revolutionary transition time he could get a lot of their influence and gain valuable archive holdings and scientific instruments.

Karpinski worked primarily in the Urals and completed the first geological map of European Russia ( published in Broad geological history of the European part of Russia from 1883 to 1894 ). He is buried near the Kremlin wall.

Honors

After Alexander Karpinski mineral Karpinskit are (whose status is questionable though), a mountain in the Urals and one on the October Revolution Island, a volcanic group on the Kuril Islands, the city Karpinsk in Sverdlovsk Oblast, a moon crater, a Soviet freighter ( Akademik Karpinski, built in 1936 as Thalia in Emden ) and the All-Russian Geological research Institute ( WSEGEI ) named in Saint Petersburg.

In 1916 he received the Wollaston medal.