Jump to content

Sergey Smirnov (geologist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sergey Smirnov
Born
Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov

(1895-09-14)14 September 1895
Died20 August 1947(1947-08-20) (aged 51)
Alma materSaint Petersburg Mining University (1919)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology, mineralogy

Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Смирно́в; 14 September 1895 – 20 August 1947) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1943).

The ridge Dorsa Smirnov on the Moon was named after him.

Awards and honors

[edit]