Vernadsky
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
This article is a biographical entry for Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, a world-renowned crystallographer and mineralogist. It details his academic career at Moscow University, his election to the Russian Academy of Sciences, and his pioneering work in geochemistry, particularly concerning radioactive substances and the role of living organisms in the formation of the Earth's crust.
Encyclopedia article (1928–1936)
Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich (born in 1863), crystallographer and mineralogist of world significance. From 1890 to 1911 he was a privat-docent, and then a professor at Moscow University; from 1906 he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Vernadsky's main works relate to the field of geochemistry, where he especially studied questions of radioactive substances and elucidated the participation of living beings in the processes of formation of the Earth's crust and distribution therein of chemical elements (see Biosphere). To study questions of this kind, Vernadsky organized at the Academy of Sciences the Radium Laboratory and the Institute of Biogeochemistry. Among Vernadsky's writings, his "Course of Mineralogy" (1st ed., Moscow, 1891) is widely known; his ideas on geochemistry are set forth in "Essays on Geochemistry", Moscow-Leningrad, 1927; a list of Vernadsky's scientific works is found in "Collection in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Scientific Activity of V. I. Vernadsky", Moscow, 1914; a biography is found in "Materials for a Biographical Dictionary of Actual Members of the Academy of Sciences", Petrograd, 1915.
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“Vernadsky.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/vernadsky/