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.
Vladimir's mother was a Russian noblewoman of Ukrainian Cossack descent. Vernadsky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1885.
He wrote to his wife Natasha on 20 June 1888 from Switzerland: While trying to find a topic for his doctorate, he first went to Naples to study under crystallographer Arcangelo Scacchi, who was senile by that time.
He served as professor and later as vice rector of Moscow University, from which he also resigned in 1911 in protest over the government's reactionary policies. Following the advent of the First World War, his proposal for the establishment of the Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces (KEPS) was adopted by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in February 1915.
The word 'biosphere' was invented by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, whom Vernadsky met in 1911. In Vernadsky's theory of the Earth's development, the noosphere is the third stage in the earth's development, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life).
Vernadsky was an important pioneer of the scientific bases for the environmental sciences. Vernadsky was a member of the Russian and Soviet Academies of Sciences since 1912 and was a founder and first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine (1918).
He published War and the Progress of Science where he stressed the importance of science as regards to its contribution to the war effort: "After the war of 1914–1915 we will have to make known and accountable the natural productive forces of our country, i.e.
He served as professor and later as vice rector of Moscow University, from which he also resigned in 1911 in protest over the government's reactionary policies. Following the advent of the First World War, his proposal for the establishment of the Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces (KEPS) was adopted by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in February 1915.
Olga Barash, Santa Fe, NM, Synergetic Press, , 2006 ===Diaries=== Dnevniki 1917–1921: oktyabr 1917-yanvar 1920 (Diaries 1917–1921), Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 1994, , 269 pp. Dnevniki.
During the 1920s he published works arguing that living organisms could reshape the planets as surely as any physical force.
Olga Barash, Santa Fe, NM, Synergetic Press, , 2006 ===Diaries=== Dnevniki 1917–1921: oktyabr 1917-yanvar 1920 (Diaries 1917–1921), Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 1994, , 269 pp. Dnevniki.
Mart 1921-avgust 1925 (Diaries 1921–1925), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp. Dnevniki 1926–1934 (Diaries 1926–1934), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
Mart 1921-avgust 1925 (Diaries 1921–1925), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp. Dnevniki 1926–1934 (Diaries 1926–1934), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
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.
Mart 1921-avgust 1925 (Diaries 1921–1925), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp. Dnevniki 1926–1934 (Diaries 1926–1934), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
During the Russian Civil War, he hosted gatherings of the young intellectuals who later founded the émigré Eurasianism movement. In the late 1930s and early 1940s Vernadsky played an early advisory role in the Soviet atomic bomb project, as one of the most forceful voices arguing for the exploitation of nuclear power, the surveying of Soviet uranium sources, and having nuclear fission research conducted at his Radium Institute.
Mart 1921-avgust 1925 (Diaries 1921–1925), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp. Dnevniki 1926–1934 (Diaries 1926–1934), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
Kniga 1, 1935–1938 (Diaries 1935–1941 in two volumes.
Volume 1, 1935–1938), Moscow, Nauka, 2006,,444 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
Kniga 2, 1939–1941 (Diaries 1935–1941.
Kniga 2, 1939–1941 (Diaries 1935–1941.
Volume 2, 1939–1941), Moscow, Nauka, 2006, , 295 pp. ==See also== Gaia theory (science) Noosphere Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Russian philosophy ==References== ==Bibliography== "Science and Russian Cultures in an Age of Revolutions" ==External links== The grave of Vernadsky Behrends, Thilo, The Renaissance of V.I.
During the Russian Civil War, he hosted gatherings of the young intellectuals who later founded the émigré Eurasianism movement. In the late 1930s and early 1940s Vernadsky played an early advisory role in the Soviet atomic bomb project, as one of the most forceful voices arguing for the exploitation of nuclear power, the surveying of Soviet uranium sources, and having nuclear fission research conducted at his Radium Institute.
In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. ==Early life== Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on in family of the native Kyiv residents Russian Imperial economist Ivan Vernadsky and music instructor Anna Petrovna Konstantinovna.
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский; Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.
English translations: *Oracle, AZ, Synergetic Press, 1986, , 86 pp. *tr.
Olga Barash, Santa Fe, NM, Synergetic Press, , 2006 ===Diaries=== Dnevniki 1917–1921: oktyabr 1917-yanvar 1920 (Diaries 1917–1921), Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 1994, , 269 pp. Dnevniki.
McMenamin, New York, Copernicus, 1997, , 192 pp. Essays on Geochemistry & the Biosphere, tr.
Mart 1921-avgust 1925 (Diaries 1921–1925), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp. Dnevniki 1926–1934 (Diaries 1926–1934), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
Mart 1921-avgust 1925 (Diaries 1921–1925), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp. Dnevniki 1926–1934 (Diaries 1926–1934), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
Olga Barash, Santa Fe, NM, Synergetic Press, , 2006 ===Diaries=== Dnevniki 1917–1921: oktyabr 1917-yanvar 1920 (Diaries 1917–1921), Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 1994, , 269 pp. Dnevniki.
Volume 1, 1935–1938), Moscow, Nauka, 2006,,444 pp. Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh.
Volume 2, 1939–1941), Moscow, Nauka, 2006, , 295 pp. ==See also== Gaia theory (science) Noosphere Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Russian philosophy ==References== ==Bibliography== "Science and Russian Cultures in an Age of Revolutions" ==External links== The grave of Vernadsky Behrends, Thilo, The Renaissance of V.I.
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