Alexander Nicolaus Scherer
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Alexander Nicolaus Scherer (Russian: Александр Иванович Шерер, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Sherer; 30 December 1771, St. Petersburg – 16 October 1824, St. Petersburg) was a Russian-German chemist and pharmacologist.
In 1794, he graduated from the University of Jena, later serving as a lecturer at the gymnasium in Weimar. In 1800, he was appointed a professor of physics at the University of Halle, shortly afterwards working as a manager at a stoneware factory in Potsdam. In 1803, he relocated to the Imperial University of Dorpat as a professor of chemistry, and during the following year returned to St. Petersburg as a professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the medico-surgical academy. In 1815, he became a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.[1]
Scherer was instrumental in the creation of the "Pharmaceutical Society of St. Petersburg", an institution in which he served as its first president.[2][3]
