Vladimir Vernadsky Facts
Vladimir Vernadsky Facts
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| Interesting Vladimir Vernadsky Facts: |
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| Vernadsky was born In St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| In 1885 he graduated from Saint Petersburg State University. |
| He became interested in mineralogy. |
| While studying for his PhD he went to Germany to study under Paul Groth at the University of Munich. |
| The laboratory at the University of Munich was fully equipped to study crystals and their optical, thermal, elastic, magnetic and electrical properties. |
| Vernadsky was active in Soviet politics and participated in the First General Congress of local governments. |
| He served in Parliament as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. |
| After the Revolution of 1917 he served the provisional government as assistant minister of education. |
| In his lectures Vernadsky popularized the terms noosphere and biosphere. |
| In 1924 he published Geochemistry. |
| He was one of the first to recognize that the many of the gases in the Earth's atmosphere derived from biological processes. |
| In 1926 he published The Biosphere. |
| He argued biological organisms affected the planet as much as physical forces. |
| In 1912 he became a member of the Russian and Soviet Academies of Sciences. |
| He was the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. |
| He was a founder of the National Library of the Ukraine. |
| During the 1930s and 1940s he was an advisor to the Soviet atom bomb project. |
| He lobbied for the use of nuclear power. |
| In 1943 he won the Stalin Prize in recognition of his work. |
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