List of Famous people with last name Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

First Name Vladimir

Last Name Vernadsky

Died on January 6, 1945

Born in Russia

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He is also known as the founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess' 1885 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

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Ivan Vernadsky

First Name Ivan

Last Name Vernadsky

Born on May 24, 1821

Died on March 27, 1884 (aged 62)

Born in Ukraine

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