Victor Efimovich Khain

Viktor Efimovich Chain (Russian Виктор Ефимович Хаин, Victor Efimovich Khain English transcription; born February 13, 1914 in Baku, † December 24, 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist.

Chain studied at the Mining Institute of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in Baku and worked until 1938 for the state oil company in Azerbaijan. 1938 to 1941 he was at the state oil Institute of Azerbaijan. In 1940 he received his doctorate at the State Research Institute of Exploration in Leningrad. 1941-1945 he did his military service in an air defense regiment in Baku. From 1945 he was at the Geological Institute of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences and dealt with the geology of Azerbaijan and its tectonics, about which he published monographs. In 1947 he completed his habilitation (Russian PhD ) about possible oil and gas deposits in the southeastern Caucasus. In 1949 he became professor of petroleum geology in Baku and in 1954 he went to Moscow as a professor at the Moscow State University.

In 1987 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1995 and the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, since 1966 as a corresponding member since 1987 and a full member. In 1993 he was awarded the Lomonosov Prize and in 1992 the Alexander Karpinski gold medal. He was an honorary member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of America, the French and Bulgarian Geological Society. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris Pierre and Marie Curie. He was a member of the International Academy of Science ( Health and Environment ) in Austria, the New York Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences.

In 1991 he received the Gustav- Steinmann Medal that he paved the way plate tectonic ideas in Eastern Europe and Asia and helped by the publication of tectonic maps and textbooks essential to understanding the global evolution of the continental crust had ( eulogy ).

He dealt with Geotektonik especially in the Soviet Union and the contexts with petroleum geology. ( To have he meant correlations with the sunspot cycle, discovered ) Later he studied with cyclic phenomena in geology to seismic and volcanic activity cycles, cosmic causes and possible effects on the environment and the earth's climate.