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| | Peter Simon Pallas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Peter Simon Pallas (September 22, 1741, Berlin — September 8, 1811, Berlin) was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia. |
 | | In 1767, Pallas was invited by Catherine II of Russia to became a professor at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and, between 1768 and 1774, he led an expedition to central Russian provinces, Povolzhye, Urals, West Siberia, Altay and Transbaikal collecting natural history specimens on their behalf. |
 | | In 1772, Pallas was shown a 680 kilogram lump of metal, which had been found near to the city of Krasnoyarsk. |
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