Russian mineralogist and chemist (born 1863)

Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky, was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Born

1863

March 12

Died

1945

Era

1860s

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1158 German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).

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The world in 1945

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april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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