Andrei Lvovich Knipper (February 24, 1931, Moscow - September 9, 2010) - geologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1992), member of the Department of Earth Sciences (section of geology, geophysics, geochemistry and mining). Chief Researcher, Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (1995) for the series of works “Tectonic stratification of the lithosphere and regional geological studies”.
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| Place of Birth | Moscow |
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| Place of death | Moscow |
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| Scientific field | geologist |
| Place of work | GIN AN SSSR |
| Academic rank | academician of RAS |
| Known as | Director, GIN RAS |
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Biography
Born in the family of the composer Leo Knipper and architect Lyubov Sergeyevna Zalesskaya. He was the great-nephew of the famous actress O. L. Knipper-Chekhova .
In 1952, while studying at Moscow State University, he participated in a geological expedition in Kazakhstan.
In 1954 he came to work at the Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , in which he went from a simple researcher to the director of the institute.
In the 1950s he began research in the field of geology and geodynamics. He studied the structure of the Baikonurovsky synclinorium - one of the major elements of the Ulutav folded system. Andrei Lvovich was one of the first in our country to come to the conclusion about the oceanic nature of the ophthalic associations of the Alpine zone. This series of works and the innovative generalizations contained in them had a great influence on the theory and practice of geological research in our country, finding at the same time a wide positive resonance abroad. The conclusions of Andrei Lvovich began to be universally used in interpreting the geological structure of folded structures, in developing methods for mapping them and in analyzing the structural confinement of minerals in allochthonous rock complexes.
In 1960-1980 he worked in the Lesser Caucasus, Cuba, Syria, the Polar Urals, Chersky Range, Western and Eastern Sayan Mountains and in the Crimea, exploring the structure and history of the development of folded structures. These works had a great influence on the development of geological research in the Soviet Union, especially in the field of interpretation of the geological structure of many cover-folded structures, the methods of their mapping and structural confinement of minerals.
Success was the International geological excursion in the Caucasus in 1973, composed of famous scientists from Europe and America, as well as leading geologists from different regions of the USSR. Scientists of the world "examined" tectonic maps and models created under the guidance of academician Knipper. The new data presented by Knipper and his collaborators was a turning point in the establishment of mobilism in the USSR.
He is one of the active creators of the Interagency Tectonic Committee. On his initiative, a program of scientific cooperation between the Academies of Sciences of the socialist countries in the field of geology was created.
He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery [1] .
Bibliography
Published over 100 scientific papers, including 8 monographs and maps [2] .
The main scientific works were devoted to tectonics, development history and palinspastica of the Alpine folded region.
Of great scientific importance is the atlas of palinspastic maps of Tethys (1985), created with the active participation of Knipper, illustrating the structural-tectonic evolution of this paleo-ocean from the early Jurassic to the present.
Notes
- ↑ Grave of A. L. Knipper
- ↑ Bibliography of A. L. Knipper in the Information System “History of Geology and Mining”, GIN RAS.