Nikolay Belov (geochemist)
Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Бело́в; December 14, 1891 – March 6, 1982) was a Soviet and Russian crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).[1][2] Belov founded the field of polychromatic symmetry.[3]
Nikolay Belov | |
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| Born | Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov December 14, 1891 |
| Died | March 6, 1982 (aged 90) |
Honours and awards
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
- Four Orders of Lenin (1961, 1969, 1971, 1981)
- Order of the October Revolution (1975)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1953)
- Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1944)
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1946)
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948)
- Medal "For Labour Valour" (1967)
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
- Stalin Prize, 1st class (1952)
- Lenin Prize (1974)
- First Prize Fedorov (USSR, 1948)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (1965)
- Gold Medal Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR (1962)
- Medal K. Ohridski (Sofia University K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, 1971)
- Honorary member of the All-Union Mineralogical Society (1964)
- First chairman of the National Committee of Soviet crystallographers (1955-1982)
- Member of the Board (1954), Vice-President (1957-1963), president (1966-1969) of the International Union of Crystallography
- Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1978)
- Honorary Doctor of University of Wrocław B. Bierut (Poland, 1975)
- Honorary member of the Mineralogical Society USA (1960), England, Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography, France (1969), Geological Society of the GDR (1975), American Society of crystallographic (1969)
References
- Vainshtein, B. K.; Simonov, V. I. (1982). "Obituary: Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov 14 December 1891–6march 1982" (PDF). Acta Crystallographica. A38: 561–562. doi:10.1107/S056773948200120X. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- Pavlishin, Vladimir I. (2017). "Nikolay V. Belov, an Outstanding Crystallographer and Crystal Chemist of the 20th Century" (PDF). Mineralogical Almanac. 22 (1): 57. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- Belov, N.V.; Tarkhova, T.N. (1956). "Colour symmetry groups". Sov. Phys. Cryst. 1 (1): 5–11.
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