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Adolph Theodor Kupffer
Baltic German chemist and physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adolph Theodor Kupffer ForMemRS (17 January 1799 Jelgava – 4 June 1865) was a Baltic German (subject of Russian Empire) chemist, and physicist. He founded the Depot of Standard Weights and Measures, and the main physical Observatory in Russia.[1]
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