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Vladimir Vernadsky

Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology

1863 - 1945

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His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2024). Vladimir Vernadsky is the 114th most popular biologist (down from 41st in 2024), the 242nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 169th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Biologist.

Vladimir Vernadsky is most famous for his concept of the biosphere, which he defined as the sum of all the living things on Earth and the processes that sustain them.

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Vladimir Vernadsky ranks #242 among 4,534 people in Pantheon born in Russia, inside the top 6% of that group.

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Vladimir Vernadsky's biography appears in 61 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 95% of all Biologists.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 114 out of 1,121. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Svante Pääbo, and Hermann Joseph Muller. After him are William John Swainson, Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, and Sylvia Earle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 26. Before him are Wilhelm Marx, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandre Yersin, Max Wolf, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Werner Sombart. After him are Reginald Innes Pocock, George Santayana, Leo Baekeland, Essad Pasha Toptani, Heinrich Rickert, and Paul Painlevé. Among people deceased in 1945, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 62. Before him are Wilhelm Burgdorf, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Oskar Dirlewanger, Heinrich Wölfflin, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Ludwig Stumpfegger. After him are Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Felix Salten, Arthur Nebe, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Otto Neurath, and René Lalique.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 242 out of 4,534. Before him are Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Mykola Azarov (1947), Michel Fokine (1880), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), and Daniel of Moscow (1261). After him are Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Bruno Taut (1880), Léon Theremin (1896), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Vasily Stalin (1921).

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Among Biologists In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 4. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Alexander Oparin (1894), and Nikolai Vavilov (1887). After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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