Background
VERNADSKIY, Vladimir was born on February 28, 1863 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of the economist Professor 1. Vemadskiy.
VERNADSKIY, Vladimir was born on February 28, 1863 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of the economist Professor 1. Vemadskiy.
1885 graduate Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1886 custodian, Mineralógica! Museum, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1888-1890 sci studies abroad. 1885-1890 took part in soil and geological expeditions and Field trips.
From 1890 associate professor of mineralogy, Moscow University. From 1891 Master of Geology and Geognosy. From 1898 professor of mineralogy and crystallography, Moscow University.
1906 professor extraordinarius, Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. From 1909 acad extraordinarily, Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. From 1914 director Geological and Mineralogical Museum, Academy of Sciences.
1915 co-founder and chairman, Commission to Study the Natural Production Resources of Russia. 1917 lived in Ukraine and helped plan Ukraine Academy of Sciences. 1919 president, Ukraine Academy of Sciences.
1920-1921 professor, Tavrida University, Simferopol’. 1921 founded Meteorite Department, Mineralogical Museum, Petrograd Academy of Sciences. 1922 foundcr-director, Radium Institute, Petrograd.
1923-1926 worked in France, Czechoslovakia and Poland. 1926 founder-chairman, Commission for the History of Knowledge, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1926-1930 chairman, Commission to Study Natural Production Resources, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
1927-1929 research in France, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Germany. From 1929 founder-director, Biogeochcmical Laboratory, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1930 founded Commission for Permafrost Studies.
1937 founder and vice-prcs, International Commission to Determine the Absolute Age of Geological Rocks by Radioactive Methods. Company-founder and from 1940 chairman, Isotopes Commission. Advanced hypothesis of connection between crystallic form and physicochemical structure of matter.
Proposed evolutionary theory of minerals. Established that isomorphic series are not constant but shift and change under the influence of temperature and pressure. Developed his theory of the structure of alumosilicates.
Founded new sci geochemistry. From 1910 conducted First surveys to prospect for radium and uranium in Russia. 1922 wrote that “the time is not far away when man will have atomic energy in his hands”.
Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1912. Member, Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences from 1926. Member, Parisian Academy of Sciences from 1928.