GEOLOGIST

Anna Missuna

1868 - 1922

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Anna Boleslavovna Missuna (12 November 1868 – 2 May 1922) was a Russian-born Polish geologist, mineralogist, and paleontologist. She was a chemistry professor at the Moscow Highest Women's Courses, and taught petrography, paleontology, historical geology, and historical geography. Her research focused on finite moraines in Poland, Lithuania, and Russia, glacial features in Belarus and Latvia, and the Jurassic corals of Crimea. She published in Russian and German. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Missuna is the 78th most popular geologist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 118th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Anna Missuna ranks 78 out of 90Before her are William Barton Rogers, Andrey Arkhangelsky, Joseph Thomson, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Jens Esmark, and David A. Johnston. After her are Ivan Gubkin, Walther Penck, John Bell Hatcher, Robert Jameson, Daniel Barringer, and Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Anna Missuna ranks 189Before her are Maria Andreyeva, Otokar Březina, Jaroslav Kvapil, Hermann Lietz, Johannes van Dijk, and Spottiswoode Aitken. After her are Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, Lida Heymann, Ellen Roosevelt, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Horace Elgin Dodge, and Willis R. Whitney. Among people deceased in 1922, Anna Missuna ranks 126Before her are Lev Chugaev, A. V. Dicey, August Palm, Cathal Brugha, Gösta Runö, and Pál Simon. After her are Alfred Capus, John Butler Yeats, Liberato Marcial Rojas, William Desmond Taylor, Henry Lawson, and Charles Thias.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Anna Missuna ranks 174 out of 368Before her are Walter Anderson (1885), Vladimir Resin (1936), Lidia Wysocka (1916), Iosif Kheifits (1905), Ivan Edeshko (1945), and Vladimir Samsonov (1976). After her are Aleksandr Dedyushko (1962), Gennady Novitsky (1949), Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko (1938), Viktar Babaryka (1963), Darya Domracheva (1986), and Valentina Stenina (1934).

Among GEOLOGISTS In Belarus

Among geologists born in Belarus, Anna Missuna ranks 2Before her are Ignacy Domeyko (1802).