Yekaterina Ankinovich

Yekaterina Alexandrovna Ankinovich (1911-1991) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist, Doctor of Sciences and professor. She discovered a record number of minerals - 12.[1] She won the Lenin Prize and the Stalin Prize.

Biography

Ankinovich was born in Little Yalchik (now Chuvashia).[2]

In 1937, she graduated from Leningrad Mining Institute (now Saint Petersburg Mining University).[1] In 1964, she earned a Doctor of Sciences in Geology and Mineralogy.[1]

She worked in the geological service of Kazakhstan including in Alma-Ata and Karatau.[1]

Ankinovich became a professor in 1967.[1] She later became head of the department of "crystallography, mineralogy and petrography."[2]

Stalin Prize Third Degree (USSR State Prize) 1948[1] for "geological research and development of the Nikolaevsky polymetal deposit"[2]
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Honored Scientist of the Kazakhstani SSR (1974)[1]
USSR Deposit Discoverer Medal
Lenin Prize[3]

She has a mineral named after her - Ankinovichit.[4][5]

Her husband Stepan Gerasimovich Ankinovich was also a Soviet geologist.[6]

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