Yuri Apolonovich Zhemchuzhnikov ( April 26 ( May 8 ), 1885 , Samara - January 9, 1957 , Leningrad ) - Russian and Soviet geologist , specialist in the field of geology and petrography of coal , corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( 1946 ).
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Biography
He graduated from the Mining Institute in Petrograd ( 1915 ) and since 1920 he taught at it.
In 1920 - 1941 - He worked at the Geological Committee and the All-Union Scientific Research Geological Institute.
Since 1930 - professor at the Leningrad Mining Institute.
Key Scientific Achievements
- He proposed and developed the principles of classification of coal seams according to the type of spores present in them.
- He proposed his own genetic classification of coals, in which he distinguished two groups (humolites and sapropelites), and each of the groups was divided into two classes (1 - humites, 2 - liptobiolites, 3 - sapropelites and 4 - saprocolites).
- He developed lithology of coal strata and an understanding of the conditions of occurrence of coal seams. He developed the theory of facies .
- He was the leader of the project “Atlas of the Microstructure of Coals of the USSR” ( 1937 ) and the collection “Oblique Layering and its Geological Interpretation” ( 1940 ).
Rewards
Order of Lenin , 2 other orders, as well as medals.
Sources
- The Order
- About Yu. A. Zhemchuzhnikov in TSB (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia) (Russian)
- Zhemchuzhnikov, Yuri Apollonovich on the official website of the RAS
- Shatalov N.N. The life and career of professor-coal miner Yuri Apolonovich Zhemchuzhnikov (on the 130th anniversary of his birth) // Geological Journal. 2015. No. 3. P. 125-128.