Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich

- January 6, 1945, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet scientist

of the XX century, naturalist, thinker and public figure; the creator of many scientific schools. One of the representatives of Russian cosmism; the creator of the science of biogeochemistry.

chairman of the Commission for the Study of the Natural

Production Forces of Russia, was one of the founders of the GOELRO plan.
Since 1912 academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (later the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). One of the founders and the first president (October 27, 1918) of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
From 1920 to 1921, Rector of the Tauride University in Simferopol.

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Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

Tavrichesky National University.
V.I. Vernadsky

organized by him. In the period from 1922 to 1926

he worked abroad in Prague and Paris. One of the main reasons for working in France was research in the laboratories of Curie parisia - a substance mistakenly taken as a new radioactive element.
In 1926 - formulated the concept of the biological structure of the ocean. According to this concept, life in the ocean is concentrated in the "films" - geographic boundary layers of various scales.
In 1927 he organized the Department of Living Matter at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. However, he used the term “living substance” in a sense different from the work of O. B. Lepeshinskaya as an aggregate of living organisms in the biosphere.

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Radium Institute

science - biogeochemistry and made a huge contribution to geochemistry.

From 1927 until his death, he served as director of the Biogeochemical Laboratory at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He was a teacher of a whole galaxy of Soviet geochemists.
Of the philosophical heritage of Vernadsky, the notion of the noosphere was best known; He is considered one of the main thinkers of the direction known as Russian cosmism.

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Vladimir Ivanovich worked at MGU

and on January 6, 1945, he died in Moscow and

was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

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