Background
Nikolai Koksharov was born on the 5th of December 1818 in Ust-Kamenogorsk (today's Kazakhstan).
- Photos
- Works
Main Photo
Nikolai Koksharov
Nikolai Ivanovich Koksharov
src="/web/img/loading.gif" data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=2855067&cache=false" alt="Other photo of Nikolai Koksharov" class="gallery__img" height="167"
Other photo of Nikolai Koksharov
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
- Photos
- Works
book
Materialien Zur Mineralogie Russlands, Volumes 7-8 (German Edition)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1144351928/?tag=2022091-20
Nikolai Ivanovich Koksharov
Edit Profilecrystallographer Major general mineralogist
Education
He was educated at the military school of mines in St Petersburg.
Career
At the age of twenty-two he was selected to accompany R. I. Murchison and De Verneuil, and afterwards De Keyserling, in their geological survey of the Russian Empire. Subsequently he devoted his attention mainly to the study of mineralogy and mining, and was appointed director of the Institute of Mines. In 1865 he became director of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of St Petersburg. He contributed numerous papers on euclase, zircon, epidote, orthite, monazite and other mineralogical subjects to the St Petersburg and Vienna academies of science, to Johann Christian Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Leonhard and Brown's Jahrbuch, &c.
Achievements
Works
Membership
Koksharov was an ordinary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1866).Since 1865 he was a director of the Mineralogical Society of St.Petersburg.
-
Born
-
Died
January 2, 1893 (aged 74) -
Nationality
Russian Empire -
Ethnicity
Career
-
1846 - 1855
-
1855 - 1872
-
1872 - 1881