Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

1863 - 1945

country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian, Ukrainian, French, German

educated at: Saint Petersburg State University

occupation: philosopher, geologist, biologist, biogeochemist, chemist, university teacher, ecologist, geochemist, mineralogist, teacher

award received: USSR State Prize, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class, Stalin Prize

position held: professor, member of the State Council of the Russian Empire

student of: Andrey Beketov, Dmitri Konovalov

influenced by: Vasily Dokuchaev

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский, 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' 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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