Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

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]

Nikolay Belov
Николай Белов
Belov in 1952
Born
Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov

December 14, 1891
DiedMarch 6, 1982 (aged 90)

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

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

Works

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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

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Organizational memberships

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References

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  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. ^ Pavlishin V.I. (2017). Nikolay V. Belov, an outstanding crystallographer and crystal chemist of the 20th century, Mineralogical Almanac, 22(1), 57
  3. ^ Belov, N.V. and Tarkhova, T.N. (1956). Colour symmetry groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 1(1), 5-11
  4. ^ The editors (1962). Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov (on his seventieth birthday), Sov. Phys. Cryst., 6(6), 661-664
  5. ^ Anonymous (1971). Nikolai Vasilyevich Belov (on his eightieth birthday), Acta Cryst., A27, 508-510
  6. ^ Lipson, H. (1972). Professor N. V. Belov, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 16(6), 952-953
  7. ^ a b The editors (1981). Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov: ninetieth birthday, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 26(6), 647-650
  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. ^ Shafranovskii, I.I. (1991). The life and work of Academician Nikolai Vasil'evich Belov, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 36(6), 755-757
  10. ^ Belov, N.V. (1962). Personal reminiscences, in Ewald, P. P. (ed.), 50 years of x-ray diffraction, IUCr, Utrecht, 520-521
  11. ^ Belov, N.V. (1947). The structure of ionic crystals and metallic phases, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, pp. 236 (in Russian)
  12. ^ Belov, N.V. (1951). Structural crystallography, Nauka, Moscow (in Russian)
  13. ^ Shubnikov, A.V., Belov, N.V., et. al. (1964). Colored symmetry, Holser, W.T. (ed.), Pergamon Press, Oxford, LCCN 63--22599
  14. ^ Belov, N.V. (1976). Essays on structural mineralogy, Nauka, Moscow, pp. 344 (in Russian)
  15. ^ Belov, N.V. (1977). Real crystal formation processes, Nauka, Moscow, pp. 235 (in Russian)
  16. ^ Belov, N.V. (1984). Aleksey Vasil'yevich Shubnikov, Nauka, Moscow, pp. 222 (in Russian)
  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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