BIOLOGIST

Vladimir Vernadsky

1863 - 1945

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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский), also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадський; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863 – 6 January 1945), was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Vernadsky is the 114th most popular biologist (down from 41st in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 169th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Biologist.

Vladimir Vernadsky is most famous for his concept of the biosphere, which he defined as the sum of all the living things on Earth and the processes that sustain them.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 114 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Svante Pääbo, and Hermann Joseph Muller. After him are William John Swainson, Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, and Sylvia Earle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 26. Before him are Wilhelm Marx, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandre Yersin, Max Wolf, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Werner Sombart. After him are Reginald Innes Pocock, George Santayana, Leo Baekeland, Essad Pasha Toptani, Heinrich Rickert, and Paul Painlevé. Among people deceased in 1945, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 62. Before him are Wilhelm Burgdorf, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Oskar Dirlewanger, Heinrich Wölfflin, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Ludwig Stumpfegger. After him are Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Felix Salten, Arthur Nebe, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Otto Neurath, and René Lalique.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 242 out of 3,761. Before him are Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Mykola Azarov (1947), Michel Fokine (1880), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), and Daniel of Moscow (1261). After him are Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Bruno Taut (1880), Léon Theremin (1896), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Vasily Stalin (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 4. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Alexander Oparin (1894), and Nikolai Vavilov (1887). After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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