Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский), known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадський; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863 – 6 January 1945), was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. Vernadsky's portrait is depicted on the Ukrainian ₴1,000 hryvnia banknote.

Awards: USSR State Prize, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class, State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, honorary citizen of Crimea Education: Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University, Imperial St. Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg State University

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