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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863 - 1945) was a soviet mineralogist and geochemist whose ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. He also worked in Ukraine where he founded the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. 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. He was a founding father of several new disciplines, including geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. |
Leonov Oleksiy