Eduard Suess
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Eduard Suess was an Austrian geologist and a specialist on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana and the Te
Eduard Suess, 1869
Eduard Suess, c. 1890
In old age
Cover of Die Hochquelle score (1874)
Vladimir Vernadsky
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky, was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry,
Eduard Suess
…the silver florin and gold coins. In his work Die Entstehung der Alpen, Suess also introduced the concept of the biosphere, which was later extended by Vladimir I. Vernadsky in 1926. Suess wrote: One thing seems to be foreign on this large celestial body consisting of spheres, namely, organic life. But this life is limited…
Vernadsky in 1934
Vladimir Vernadsky, Paris 1889
Vernadsky family in Poltava in 1908. Right-left: Vladimir, his daughter Nina, wife Nataliia and her brother Pavlo, son George.
Vernadsky portrayed on a 1963 Soviet stamp