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Alexander von Humboldt’s ideas on volcanism and their influence on Russian scientists

  • The article provides historical background for Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition into Russia in 1829. It includes information on Humboldt’s works and publications in Russia over the course of his lifetime, as well as an explanation of the Russian scientific community’s response to those works. Humboldt’s ideas on the existence of an active volcano in Central Asia attracted the attention of two prominent Russian geographers, P.Semenov and P.Kropotkin, whose views on the nature of volcanism were quite different. P.Semenov personally met Humboldt in Berlin. P. Kropotkin made one of the most important geological discoveries of the 19th Century: he found the fresh volcanic cones near Lake Baikal. Soon after Humboldt’s Russian expedition, and partly as a result of it, an important mineral was found in the Ilmen mountains - samarskite, which later gave its name to the chemical element Samarium, developed in 1879. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the Russian scientist V.Vernadskiy pointed out that samarskite was the first uranium-rich mineral found in Russia.

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Author:Alexander Zemtsov
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4360-100613
URL:http://edoc.bbaw.de/oa/articles/reFAG1feEy6uQ/PDF/23Ea6ENcJXkOg.pdf
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2006/10/24
Publishing Institution:Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Release Date:2006/10/24
Tag:Alexander von Humboldt; Reisewerk Humboldts; Russlandreise
Humboldt's Russian expedition
Source:Humboldt im Netz 11 (VI)
Institutes:BBAW / Akademienvorhaben Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen
Schriftenreihen in Einzelbeiträgen:BBAW / Humboldt im Netz (HiN) / HiN VI, 11 (2005)
        
            
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