Nikolai Pavlovich Yushkin

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Nikolai Pavlovich Juschkin ( Russian Николай Павлович Юшкин * 20th May 1936 in Iwangora, Rajon Vesyegonsk ; † 17th September 2012 in Syktyvkar ) was a Russian geologist and mineralogist .

Life

The farmer's son Juschkin studied after attending the middle school 1952-1955 in the Geology Department of the mining chemical -Technikums Kirovsk . During the last year of his studies he was involved in expedition work in the eastern part of the Kola peninsula in nickel and rare earth deposits . He then worked in Tashkent as a geologist for the Trust Sredasgeochimraswedka and the Chimgeolnerud expedition . He also made investigations in the mountains of the Ferghana Valley . He married Lidija Andrejewna Igumnowa and had the daughter Galina in 1957. He took part in correspondence courses at the Polytechnic All-Union Institute (1959-1965) and the geology faculty of the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute (from 1960). In 1960 he became a member of the All-Russian Mineralogical Society.

Since 1961, Yushkin worked at the Institute of Geology of the Komi Science Center of the Urals Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR), in which he rose from senior laboratory assistant to institute director. In 1967, with his work on the mineralogy and paragenesis of elemental sulfur in exogenous deposits , he received his doctorate in one step to become a candidate and doctorate in geological-mineralogical sciences . He led expeditions to the northern Pai-Choi Mountains and the island of Waigach (1972) and to Novaya Zemlya (1973, 1976). In 1975 he took part in the Tenth Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography in Amsterdam . In 1977 his book on theory and methods of mineralogy was published. With others he wrote a book on optical fluorite . In 1987 he was elected Corresponding Member and 1991 Real Member of the AN-SSSR, which was now the Russian Academy of Sciences . He became a member of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (1993) and the Mineralogical Society of America (1994). In 2011 he took part in the international conference Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XIV in San Diego and in 2012 in the First European Mineralogical Conference at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

The mineral yushkinite was named after Yushkin .

Honors, prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Важные события из жизни и деятельности Н.П. Юшкина (accessed April 28, 2018).
  2. ↑ Юшкин Н. П., Волкова Н. В., Маркова Г. А .: Оптический флюорит . Nauka , Moscow 1983.
  3. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Юшкин Николай Павлович (accessed April 29, 2018).
  4. ^ IMA / CNMNC List of Mineral Names; March 2018 (PDF 1.67 MB; accessed on May 3, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Yushkin, Nikolai Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юшкин, Николай Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Iwangora, Rajon Vesyegonsk
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 2012
Place of death Syktyvkar