Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg

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The Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg was the leading scientific institution of the Russian Empire, renowned in the 18th and 19th centuries as a major European center for research and scholarship.

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instanceOf learned society
scientific academy
alsoKnownAs Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg

Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
surface form: Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
surface form: St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
country Russian Empire
dissolvedOrAbolished 1917
employerOf Aleksandr Butlerov
Alexander von Middendorff
Boris Jacobi
Daniel Bernoulli
Dmitri Mendeleev
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Heinrich Lenz
Karl Ernst von Baer
Leonhard Euler
Mikhail Lomonosov
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Nikolai Zinin
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Peter Simon Pallas
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
Sofia Kovalevskaya
surface form: Sofya Kovalevskaya

Vasily Struve
Vladimir Vernadsky
fieldOfWork astronomy
chemistry
ethnography
geography
history
mathematics
natural sciences
philology
physics
foundedBy Peter the Great
hasPart library
museum
observatory
printing house
inception 1724
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
Russian
locatedIn Europe
Russia
St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
location St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
memberOf European scientific community
notableFor being a major European center for research and scholarship in the 18th and 19th centuries
being the leading scientific institution of the Russian Empire
opened 1725
originalName Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg self-linksurface differs
surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
patron Peter the Great
publishes proceedings
scientific journals
significantPeriod 18th century
19th century
successor Russian Academy of Sciences

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Leonhard Euler employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
Leonhard Euler memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
Andrei Tupolev memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg originalName Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg alsoKnownAs Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg
Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg alsoKnownAs Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg alsoKnownAs Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Mikhail Lomonosov employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Mikhail Lomonosov memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Giacomo Quarenghi notableWork Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Academy of Sciences building, Saint Petersburg
Dmitri Mendeleev employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Friedrich Bessel memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Soviet Academy of Sciences precededBy Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire hasInstitution Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Moritz von Jacobi employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
Moritz von Jacobi memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences precededBy Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Andrey Markov memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Karl Ernst von Baer employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
Alexander von Middendorff employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Alexander von Middendorff memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Pallas employer Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
Pallas memberOf Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
Demidov Prize originalAwardingBody Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form: Imperial Academy of Sciences