Vladimir Vernadsky and Ukraine

摘要

The name of Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, an outstanding mineralogist and geochemist, a reformer of science and the founder of new scientific branches, and an administrator and historian of science, is known not only to the Ukrainian scientific commu nity but also to any educated Ukrainian. Some know him as the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences; others, as the author of the theory of the noosphere; and still others, as the reformer of miner alogy and the creator of geochemistry, biogeochemis try, and radiogeology. One hundred and fifty years have passed since the birth of this outstanding person, and it is nearly 70 years since his death, but interest in his creative work has not faded.