31 Facts About Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Vernadsky was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth.

Ivan Vernadsky had been a professor of political economy in Kyiv at the St Vladimir University before moving to Saint Petersburg; then he was an Active State Councillor and worked in the Governing Senate in St Petersburg.

Vladimir Vernadsky made the decision to fill this role because the proximity to his childhood home allowed him to care for his recently widowed mother.

Vladimir Vernadsky went on to study as faculty at Saint Petersburg State University in the Physics-Mathematics program where he specialized in crystallography and mineralogy.

Vladimir Vernadsky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1885 with a thesis on isomorphous mixtures in minerals.

In 1886, Vernadsky married a woman named Natalya E Staritskaya, although there is not much documented information on her as an individual.

Vladimir Vernadsky wrote to his wife Nataliia on 20 June 1888 from Switzerland:.

Scacchi's condition led Vladimir Vernadsky to go to Germany to study under Paul Groth, curator of minerals in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Vladimir Vernadsky learned to use Groth's modern equipment, which included a machine to study the optical, thermal, elastic, magnetic and electrical properties of crystals.

Vladimir Vernadsky gained access to the physics lab of Leonhard Sohncke, who was studying crystallisation during that period.

In 1889, when Dokuchaev declined to attend, Vladimir Vernadsky took over the World Exhibition in Paris on his behalf.

Vladimir Vernadsky's exhibit featured a display on Russian soils where he earned a gold medal for his organization and presentation.

Vladimir Vernadsky often mentioned that Petersburg was built on the bones of Ukrainians.

Vladimir Vernadsky asked his father in detail about Shevchenko, Kulish, Maksymovich, Kvitka-Osnovianenko, whom he knew personally, as well as about the Cyril-Methodiev brotherhood, about Kostomarov, etc.

Vladimir Vernadsky participated in the First General Congress of the zemstvos, held in Petersburg on the eve of the 1905 Russian Revolution to discuss how best to pressure the government to the needs of the Russian society; became a member of the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party ; and served in parliament, resigning to protest the Tsar's proroguing of the Duma.

Vladimir Vernadsky published War and the Progress of Science where he stressed the importance of science as regards to its contribution to the war effort:.

In 1898, Vladimir Vernadsky moved to Moscow in order to teach at Moscow University.

The word 'biosphere' was invented by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, whom Vladimir Vernadsky met in 1911.

Vladimir Vernadsky was an important pioneer of the scientific bases for the environmental sciences.

Vladimir 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.

Vladimir Vernadsky was a founder of the National Library of Ukrainian State and worked closely with the Tavrida University in Crimea.

Vladimir Vernadsky died before a full project was pursued.

Vladimir Vernadsky was born into a Ukrainian family of intellects and progressives.

Vladimir Vernadsky's grandfather was a military doctor, who was honored by Napoleon for his humanitarianism, and his father freed his serfs before serfrom was officially abolished.

Vladimir Vernadsky's father's background in politics encouraged Vladimir Vernadsky's own interests in humanistic and interdisciplinary perspectives in scientific fields, and was a big reason why this was his first choice of study before he made his way to minerology.

Vladimir Vernadsky's upbringing was immersed in his Ukrainian culture, as he was surrounded by the music from his mother, and the intellectual discussion with his uncle and father.

When Vladimir Vernadsky was teaching at Moscow University in 1891, the link between biology and biochemistry was made to inspire his theories in the biogeochemistry realm.

Vladimir Vernadsky was in the opinion that society could be improved through science and that it must not be kept hidden and isolated from the public.

Vladimir Vernadsky's philosophies reflected this sentiment and they smoothly integrated natural science, philosophy, and ethics together, promoting freedom of thought and intellectual change.

Vladimir Vernadsky was in the strongest belief that the key to national progress and reform was through the support of academic institutions.