Boris Walentinowitsch Tschesnokow

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Boris Walentinowitsch Tschesnokow ( Russian Борис Валентинович Чесноков ; born June 11, 1928 in Stavropol ; † October 25, 2005 ) was a Russian geologist , mineralogist and university professor .

Life

Tschesnokow studied at the Sverdlovsk Mountain Institute with a degree in 1952. He stayed there as a researcher and teacher and became a lecturer in 1963 . One focus of his work was the age determination of minerals .

From 1978 conducted research in Chesnokov Ilmengebirge of Ilmen Nature Reserve of the Ural Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1982 he defended his doctoral thesis on the mineralogical mapping of an ore area with hydrothermal solution using the example of the ore area Berjosowski in the Urals. In the Ilmen nature reserve, he discovered the mineral Matveevit, named after Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Matwejew in 1986 . The mineral Chesnokovite was named after Tschesnokov . He described about 10 new minerals.

From 1988 to 1998, Chesnokov headed the Laboratory of Mineralogy of the Anthropogenic Landscape (Anthropization) of the Institute of Mineralogy of the Urals Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1993 he received the Demidow Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Чесноков Борис Валентинович (accessed April 20, 2018).
  2. ↑ Чесноков Б. В .: Относительный возраст минеральных индивидов и агрегатов . In: Недра . 1974, p. 105 .
  3. ↑ Matveevite (accessed April 20, 2018).
  4. ^ General Matveevite Information (accessed April 20, 2018).
  5. ↑ Chesnokovite (accessed April 20, 2018).
  6. ↑ General Chesnokovite Information (accessed April 20, 2018).
  7. ↑ Чесноков Борис Валентинович (accessed April 20, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Tschesnokow, Boris Walentinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чесноков, Борис Валентинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist, mineralogist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavropol
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2005