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Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

Soviet and Russian crystallographer, geochemist and academician

Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Бело́в; December 14, 1891 – March 6, 1982) was a Soviet and Russian crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).[1][2]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Belov worked primarily in the fields of mineralogy (particularly silicates), determination of crystal structures using X-ray crystallography, and the theory of symmetry, specifically dichromatic, and polychromatic symmetry, a field which Belov founded.[3]

Career

Belov’s career has been summarised in a number of jubilees and obituaries.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Works

Belov was the author or co-author over 1400 academic works.[7]

Books:

  • The structure of ionic crystals and metallic phases (1947)[11]
  • Structural crystallography (1951)[12]
  • Colored Symmetry (1964)[13]
  • Essays on structural mineralogy (1976)[14]
  • Real crystal formation processes (1977)[15]
  • Aleksey Vasil'yevich Shubnikov (1984)[16]

Belov’s scientific work on symmetry has been placed into historical context by V.A. Koptsik.[17]

Honours and awards

Organizational memberships

References

  1. [1]
    Vainshtein B.K. and Simonov V.I. (1982). Obituary: Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov 14 December 1891-6 March 1982, Acta Cryst., A38, 561-562, doi:10.1107/S056773948200120X
  2. [2]
    Pavlishin V.I. (2017). Nikolay V. Belov, an outstanding crystallographer and crystal chemist of the 20th century, Mineralogical Almanac, 22(1), 57
  3. [3]
    Belov, N.V. and Tarkhova, T.N. (1956). Colour symmetry groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 1(1), 5-11
  4. [4]
    The editors (1962). Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov (on his seventieth birthday), Sov. Phys. Cryst., 6(6), 661-664
  5. [5]
    Anonymous (1971). Nikolai Vasilyevich Belov (on his eightieth birthday), Acta Cryst., A27, 508-510
  6. [6]
    Lipson, H. (1972). Professor N. V. Belov, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 16(6), 952-953
  7. [7]
    The editors (1981). Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov: ninetieth birthday, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 26(6), 647-650
  8. [8]
    Shafranovsky, I.I. (1981). Belov, Nikolai Vasil'evich, in Holmes, F.L. (ed.), Dictionary of scientific biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, vol. 17, Supplement II, 66-68 ISBN 0-684-19177-6
  9. [9]
    Shafranovskii, I.I. (1991). The life and work of Academician Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 36(6), 755-757
  10. [10]
    Belov, N.V. (1962). Personal reminiscences, in Ewald, P. P. (ed.), 50 years of x-ray diffraction, IUCr, Utrecht, 520-521
  11. [11]
    Belov, N.V. (1947). The structure of ionic crystals and metallic phases, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, pp. 236 (in Russian)
  12. [12]
    Belov, N.V. (1951). Structural crystallography, Nauka, Moscow (in Russian)
  13. [13]
    Shubnikov, A.V., Belov, N.V., et. al. (1964). Colored symmetry, Holser, W.T. (ed.), Pergamon Press, Oxford, LCCN 63--22599
  14. [14]
    Belov, N.V. (1976). Essays on structural mineralogy, Nauka, Moscow, pp. 344 (in Russian)
  15. [15]
    Belov, N.V. (1977). Real crystal formation processes, Nauka, Moscow, pp. 235 (in Russian)
  16. [16]
    Belov, N.V. (1984). Aleksey Vasil'yevich Shubnikov, Nauka, Moscow, pp. 222 (in Russian)
  17. [17]
    Koptsik, V.A. (1968). A general sketch of the development of the theory of symmetry and its applications in physical crystallography over the last 50 years, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 12(5), 667-683
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