Tsvet, Mikhail

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Name
Tsvet, Mikhail Gender: M
Michele De Zevett
born on 14 May 1872 at 11:30 (= 11:30 AM )
Place Asti, Italy, 44n54, 8e12
Timezone LST m12e29 (is standard time)
Data source
Quoted BC/BR
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_taucol.18.gif 23°54' s_mo.18.gif s_leocol.18.gif 10°23 Asc.s_leocol.18.gif 22°41'



Mikhail Tsvet

Biography

Russian-Italian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography (the collective term for a set of laboratory techniques for the separation of mixtures). His last name is Russian for both "colour" and "flowering." He died on 26 June 1919.


Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes "Michael Tswett's first paper on chromatography‎" by Mikhail Semenovich T︠S︡vet, Gerhard Hesse, and Herbert Weil (M. Woelm, 1954), p. 27: "Michael Tswett' s birth certificate can be inspected in the ,,Ufficio dello Stato" of the city of Asti (Piemont, Italy]; in it he is described as Michele De Zevett. Michael was born at 11.30 am on the 14th May 1872."

Categories

  • Vocation : Science : Biology (Botanist)