Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve (russian: Генрих Васильевич Струве, tr. ; 10 July 1822 – 28 March 1908) was a Baltic German chemist from the

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and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Struve was born in 1822 in Dorpat (Tartu), then Russian Empire. His father was the Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864) of German origins. Bernhard Wilhelm Struve (1827-1889), governor of Astrakhan and Perm, was his brother. The German mathematician and pedagogue

Jacob Struve Jacob Struve (also Jakob Struve; November 21, 1755 – April 2, 1841) was a German mathematician and father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Jacob Struve was born in 1755, in Horst, Holstein. He was the youngest of the four ...

(1755-1841) was his grandfather. In 1845, he graduated from the University of Tartu and continued working there in the field of chemistry till 1849. In 1846, via arrangement by his father Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Genrikh spent a month visiting

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who was impressed with both the father and his son. In 1849, Struve moved to the Mineralogy Department in Saint Petersburg and worked there till 1867. In 1867, he became a criminal medicine expert in Tiflis.V. K. Abalkin ''et al.'
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(in Russian), St. Petersburg University There, he used not only chemical, but also early photographical (1885) methods for criminal analysis. He had also participated in the chemical analysis of mineral springs of the area, in particular of the Matsesta spring in

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in 1886. Struve married Pauline Fuss, a great-granddaughter of Leonhard Euler.Pauline Fuss was the daughter of mathematician Paul Heinrich von Fuss (1798-1855), who was the son of

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(1755-1826) and his wife Albertine Benedikte Philippine Luise Euler (1766-1822). Albertine Euler was the daughter of Leonhard Euler's eldest son Johann Albrecht Euler (1734-1800) and his wife Anna Sophie Charlotte Hagemeister. Scientific work of Struve was mostly related to inorganic and analytical chemistry. In 1853, he published first in Russia tables for evaluating chemical analyses. The same year, he suggested use of ammonium molybdate for detection of arsenic in criminal medicine and in mineral analysis, such as indicating traces of arsenic in antimony. He also synthesized a range of double salts of potassium, sodium,

chromium Chromium is a chemical element with the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in group 6. It is a steely-grey, lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium metal is valued for its high corrosion resistance and hardne ...

, iron, aluminium,

molybdenum Molybdenum is a chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42 which is located in period 5 and group 6. The name is from Neo-Latin ''molybdaenum'', which is based on Ancient Greek ', meaning lead, since its ores were confused with lea ...

and tungsten. In 1876, Struve became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Струве
in Большая Энциклопедия (Great encyclopedia), SoyuzknigaСтруве Генрих Васильевич (Генрих Вильгельм)
(in Russian)

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