The Most Famous
GEOLOGISTS from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Geologists. The pantheon dataset contains 90 Geologists, 2 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 13th most number of Geologists behind Poland, and Austria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusian Geologists of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Geologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ignacy Domeyko (1802 - 1889)
With an HPI of 58.36, Ignacy Domeyko is the most famous Belarusian Geologist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota (Spanish: Ignacio Domeyko, Spanish pronunciation: [iɣˈnasjo ðoˈmejko]; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile. After a youth passed in partitioned Poland, Domeyko participated in the Polish–Russian War 1830–31. Upon Russian victory, he was exiled, spending part of his life in France (where he had gone with a fellow Philomath, Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz) before eventually settling in Chile, whose citizen he became. He lived some 50 years in Chile and made major contributions to the study of that country's geography, geology and mineralogy. His observations on the circumstances of poverty-stricken miners and of their wealthy exploiters had a profound influence on those who would go on to shape Chile's labor movement. Domeyko is seen as having had close ties to several countries and thus in 2002, when UNESCO organized a series of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of his birth, he was referred to as "a citizen of the world".
2. Anna Missuna (1868 - 1922)
With an HPI of 51.44, Anna Missuna is the 2nd most famous Belarusian Geologist. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Anna Boleslavovna Missuna (12 November 1868 – 1922) was a Russian-born Polish geologist, mineralogist, and paleontologist.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Belarusian geologists born between 1802 and 1868. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Belarusian geologists include Ignacy Domeyko, and Anna Missuna.
