Until his death in 1907, this chemist headed the Weights & Measures Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia
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Russian chemist, the youngest of a family of seventeen, born at Tobolsk, Siberia, 
... of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, a post which he occupied until his 
death.