19 Facts About Nina Vedeneyeva

Nina Evgenievna Vedeneyeva was a Soviet physicist involved in the study of mineral crystals and their coloration.

Nina Vedeneyeva was noted for development and design of instruments to improve the methods of optical crystallography.

Nina Vedeneyeva was the last partner-muse of the poet Sophia Parnok and was awarded the Stalin Prize and Order of Lenin for her scientific studies and inventions.

Nina Evgenievna Vedeneyeva was born on 1 December 1882 in Tbilisi, capital of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire to Pelageya Ivanovna and Evgeny Lvovich Vedeneyev.

Nina Vedeneyeva was a student at the Liege Electro-Technical Institute and Vedeneyeva then changed her plans and entered the same school.

Nina Vedeneyeva finished his studies and the couple returned to his parental home in Nikolaev, where their son, Yevgeny was born at the end of the year.

Nina Vedeneyeva continued teaching first chemistry, then courses on atomic matter, radioactivity and pedagogy until 1919 at Second University.

Nina Vedeneyeva assisted Vedeneyeva in obtaining the textbooks Yevgeny needed to complete his mathematics degree.

In 1930, Nina Vedeneyeva became the department head of crystal optics at the All-USSR Institute of Mineral Resources in Moscow.

Nina Vedeneyeva worked on some of the first studies of anomalous dispersion, studying nature of the colorations of both natural and synthetic transparent crystals.

Parnok continued living with Tsuberbiller and Nina Vedeneyeva visited her almost daily until her death.

The relationship was intense and in the beginning, Nina Vedeneyeva was reticent about the physical relationship.

Nina Vedeneyeva was with Parnok and Tsuberbiller when Parnok died in 1933 and she fell into a depression.

Nina Vedeneyeva evaluated the absorption and luminescence process of the quartz, and the interrelation of them to its thermoluminescent properties.

Nina Vedeneyeva evaluated the adsorption of organic dyes upon thiazine and barium nitrate crystals, as well as upon lead and strontium.

Nina Vedeneyeva developed and designed instruments which improved the methods of crystal-optical examination and developed methods to classify and diagnose clay minerals and clays found in organic dyes.

In 1952, Nina Vedeneyeva was awarded the Stalin Prize in the third degree for inventions and improvements in methods of production in the field of exploration and mining and in 1954, she was presented with the Order of Lenin.

Nina Vedeneyeva died in Moscow on 31 December 1955 a few months after her friend Avramenko.

The papers relating to the work of Nina Vedeneyeva are located at the Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies.