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PROF. VLADIMIR IVANOVICH VERNADSKY, one of the leading mineralogists and geochemists in the U.S.S.R., died on January 6. He was born at St. Petersburg on March 12 (February 28, Old Style), 1863. After graduating at the University of St. Petersburg in 1886, he spent some time in Paris working in the laboratories of Le Chatelier and Curie, and in 1896 was appointed professor of mineralogy at the University of Moscow. In 1906 he was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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TOMKEIEFF, S. Prof. V. I. Vernadsky. Nature 155, 296 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155296a0
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