1863 - 1945
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский) or Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.During the Russian Civil War he was elected as the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), for this reason he has also been considered a Ukrainian scientist in historiography, although Vernadsky personally regarded Ukraine only as historical part of Russia and even declined to become a Ukrainian citizen in 1918. Similar views expressed his son, the historian Georgy Vernadsky, an author of numerous books on Russian history. Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess' 1885 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Vernadsky has received more than 259,051 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Vladimir Vernadsky is the 51st most popular biologist (up from 54th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 216th in 2019) and the 4th most popular 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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Among biologists, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 51 out of 841. Before him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Karl Ernst von Baer, Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Nikolai Vavilov, and Hugo de Vries. After him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Jean-Henri Fabre, François Jacob, Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, and Hugo Theorell.
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 45
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 46
1869 - 1941
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 47
1741 - 1811
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 48
1887 - 1943
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 49
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 50
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 51
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 52
1823 - 1915
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 53
1920 - 2013
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 54
1731 - 1802
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 55
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 56
1903 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1863, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 18. Before him are Gabriele D'Annunzio, George Herbert Mead, Constantine P. Cavafy, Carlos I of Portugal, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and Joaquín Sorolla. After him are Austen Chamberlain, Werner Sombart, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Franz Stuck, Alexandre Yersin, and Wilhelm Marx. Among people deceased in 1945, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 53. Before him are Giovanni Agnelli, Robert Ritter von Greim, Karl-Otto Koch, Karl Hanke, Theodore Dreiser, and Franz Werfel. After him are Edgar Cayce, Hans Geiger, Edith Frank, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Margot Frank, and René Lalique.
1863 - 1938
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 12
1863 - 1931
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 13
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 14
1863 - 1908
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 15
1863 - 1950
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 16
1863 - 1923
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 17
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 18
1863 - 1937
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 19
1863 - 1941
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 20
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 21
1863 - 1928
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 22
1863 - 1943
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 23
1863 - 1946
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 24
1866 - 1945
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 47
1892 - 1945
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 48
1897 - 1945
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 49
1903 - 1945
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 50
1871 - 1945
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 51
1890 - 1945
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 52
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 53
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 54
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 55
1900 - 1945
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 56
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 57
1926 - 1945
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 58
1860 - 1945
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 59
Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 202 out of 3,262. Before him are Natalia Goncharova (1881), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Gennady Yanayev (1937), and Gennady Zyuganov (1944). After him are Alla Pugacheva (1949), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Öz Beg Khan (1282), and Ivan I of Moscow (1288).
1881 - 1962
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 196
1853 - 1920
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 197
1885 - 1919
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 198
1876 - 1938
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 199
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 200
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 201
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 202
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 203
1902 - 1982
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 204
1888 - 1972
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 205
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 206
1282 - 1341
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 207
1288 - 1340
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 208
Among biologists born in Russia, Vladimir Vernadsky ranks 4. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Peter Kropotkin (1842), and Nikolai Vavilov (1887). After him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).
1849 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 1
1842 - 1921
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 2
1887 - 1943
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 3
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 4
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 5
1864 - 1920
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 6
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 7
1810 - 1881
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 8
1870 - 1932
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 9
1815 - 1894
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 10
1827 - 1885
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 11
1843 - 1920
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 12