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Authorised form of namePallas; Peter Simon (1741 - 1811)
Other forms of namePyotr Simon
Dates1741 - 1811
Place of birthBerlin, Germany
Date of birth22 September or 03 October 1741
Place of deathBerlin, Germany
Date of death08 or 20 September 1811
Research fieldNatural science
Geography
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1764
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Notes:
DSB gives birth and death dates as 03 October 1741 and 20 September 1811
References:
W P Griffith and P J T Morris, 'Charles Hatchett FRS (1765 - 1847), chemist and discoverer of niobium' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 299 - 316
CodeNA6848
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/003414Pallas, Peter Simonnd
MM/4/8Letter proposing Dr Gleditsch for Foreign Membership of the Royal Society30 December 1765
L&P/6/181Letter, 'Of iron ore in Siberia' from Peter Simon Pallas to Matthew Maty6 November 1775
EC/1764/16Pallas, Peter Simon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/4/333Letter, 'Of the Jaculator fish' from Peter Simon Pallas to Peter Collinson20 October 1764
L&P/4/143Letter, 'On cold in St Petersburg in the winter of 1762-3' from Simon Peter Pallas and Emanuel Mendez Da Costa12 February 1763
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