Alexander Fersman

Alexander Jewgenjewitsch Fersman (Russian Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман; * 27 Oktoberjul / November 8 1883greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † May 20, 1945 in Sochi on the Black Sea ) was a Russian- Soviet mineralogist, geochemist and crystallographer.

After high school in Odessa, he studied for 3 years at the Mining Academy Novorossiysk. Since 1904 he was a student at the University of Moscow Vladimir Vernadsky. From 1907 to 1910 he studied outside Russia Antoine Lacroix in Paris and Karl Heinrich Rose Bush and Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt in Heidelberg. In 1911 he published along with the book The Diamond Goldschmidt. In 1919 he was appointed full member of the Academy of Sciences and director of the Mineralogical Museum of the Academy. Research travels took him to the remotest parts of Russia and the Soviet Union, among other things, on the Kola Peninsula to Central Asia and Siberia, but also to Elba.

Fersman wrote about 680 scientific and popular scientific works, including 50 textbooks and monographs.

Works (excerpt)

• Geochemical migration of the elements and their scientific and economic importance discussed at four mineral deposits: Chibina - tundra, emerald mines, uranium mine Tuya - Mujun, desert Kara- Kumy, Hall, published by W. Knapp, 2 volumes, 1929, 1930

Popular Scientific:

• Amusing Mineralogy ( o O. 1931)
• Memories of stones (Berlin 1948)
• Understandable Mineralogy (Berlin 1949)
• My Trips (Berlin 1952)
• Entertaining geochemistry (Berlin 1953)

Honors

In his honor, the Fersman Museum in Moscow and the mineral Fersmanit is named.

For his services Fersman received the Lenin Prize in 1929, 1942 and 1943, the Stalin Prize Order of the Red Banner of Labor.