Alexander Evgenyevich Fersman
Alexander Fersman ( Russian Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман * October 27 . Jul / 8. November 1883 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 20th May 1945 in Sochi on the Black Sea) was a Russian-Soviet mineralogist , geochemist and crystallographer .
Life
After finishing school in Odessa, he studied at the Novorossiysk Mining Academy for 3 years. From 1904 he was a student of Vladimir Vernadsky at Moscow University . From 1907 to 1910 he studied outside Russia with Antoine Lacroix in Paris and with Karl Heinrich Rosenbusch and Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt in Heidelberg. In 1911 he published the book Der Diamant with Goldschmidt . In 1919 he was made a full member of the Academy of Sciences and director of the Academy's Mineralogical Museum. Research trips took him to the most remote parts of Russia and the Soviet Union , including the Kola Peninsula, Central Asia and Siberia, but also to Elba .
Fersman wrote about 680 scientific and popular science papers, including about 50 textbooks and monographs.
Works (excerpt)
- Geochemical migration of the elements and their scientific and economic significance explained using four mineral deposits: Chibina tundra, emerald pits, Tuja-Mujun uranium pit, Kara-Kumy desert, Halle, Verlag W. Knapp, 2 volumes, 1929, 1930
Popular science:
- Entertaining Mineralogy (o. O. 1931)
- Memories of Stones (Berlin 1948)
- Understandable mineralogy (Berlin 1949)
- My travels (Berlin 1952)
- Entertaining Geochemistry (Berlin 1953)
Honors
The Fersman Museum in Moscow as well as the mineral Fersmanite and the lunar crater Fersman are named in his honor. From 1946 to 1991 the Academy of Sciences of the USSR awarded the Fersman Prize. Since 1993 it has been awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding work in the field of mineralogy and geochemistry.
For his services, Fersman received the Lenin Prize in 1929 , the Stalin Prize in 1942 and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1943 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Evgenjewitsch Fersman in the catalog of the German National Library
- American mineralogist 1946
- Alexander Fersman - Berg Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 18, 2018 (Russian).
- About Alexander Fersman in the Great Information Archive. Retrieved May 18, 2018 (Russian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Evgenjewitsch Fersman in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- ^ A. E. Fersman Prize. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 7, 2018 ( Russian Премия имени А.Е. Ферсмана ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fersman, Alexander Evgenyevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ферсман, Александр Евгеньевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Soviet mineralogist, geochemist and crystallographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1945 |
| Place of death | Sochi on the Black Sea |