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Vladimir Vernadsky
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Vladimir Vernadsky
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
(; ; – 6 January 1945) was a
Russia
n,
Ukrainian
, and
Soviet
mineralogist
and
geochemist
who is considered one of the founders of
geochemistry
,
biogeochemistry
, and of
radiogeology
, 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
.
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