Vladimir Vernadsky
Scientist, Academic
1863 – 1945
Who was Vladimir Vernadsky?
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology. His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. He also worked in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, where he founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess’ 1885 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
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- Born
- Mar 12, 1863
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
- V. I. Vernadskiĭ
- Parents
- Spouses
- Natalya Vernadskaya
(1886 - 1943)
- Natalya Vernadskaya
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Ukrainians
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russian Empire
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
Physics
( - 1885) - Mathematics
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Lived in
- Russian Empire
- Died
- Jan 6, 1945
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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