Vladimir Vernadsky
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| Born | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | 6 January 1945 (aged 81) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Residence |
Russian Empire Ukrainian State Soviet Union |
| Fields | Geology, crystallography, mineralogy, geochemistry, nuclear geology, biology, biogeochemistry, philosophy |
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Moscow State University National Academy of Science of Ukraine Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for |
Noosphere Biogeochemistry |
| Influences | Vasily Dokuchaev |
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский; Ukrainian: Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; 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, and was a founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. 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.
Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863 in family of the native Kiev residents Russian-Ukrainian economist Ivan Vernadsky and music instructor Hanna Konstantynovych. According to family legend, his father was a descendent of Zaporozhian Cossacks. He had been a professor of political economy in Kiev before moving to Saint Petersburg. His mother was a Russian noblewoman of Ukrainian Cossack descent. Vernadsky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1885. As the position of mineralogist in Saint Petersburg State University was vacant, and Vasily Dokuchaev, a soil scientist, and Alexey Pavlov, a geologist, had been teaching Mineralogy for a while, Vernadsky chose to enter Mineralogy. He wrote to his wife Natasha on 20 June 1888 from Switzerland:
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