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,
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
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
Vladimir Vernadsky
…National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. Vernadsky's…
Eduard Suess, 1869
Eduard Suess, c. 1890
In old age
Cover of Die Hochquelle score (1874)