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Obruchev Prize in geology for his lifetime contributions to the geological sciences.
(GSE 29, p. 596.)
Sobolev, Nikolai V., D. GM. S. Born in 1935. Geologist. Specialist in Mineralogy
and petrology. Corresponding member of The Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since 1981, and
academician since 1992. He graduated from L’vovsk State University in 1958. He
worked at the Mineralogical museum at the university. In 1960 he joined the
Geology and Geophysics Institute of the Siberian Department, working as a junior
and senior researchers and Head of the Laboratory of High Pressure Minerals
(1973). In 1983, he became Deputy Director of that institute. He has been a
professor since 1985. He was Chairman the Scientific Council on the Natural
Sciences for the Presidium of the Siberian Department for diamond deposits in
1983. He became Vice President of the Mineralogy Society in 1982 and a member
of the Mineralogy Specialists Association in 1982. In 1986 he became a member of
the American Geophysical Society. He received the Lenin Prize in 1976. He is
presently heading a research program on the specifics of the creation of minerals
and the evolution of deep zones of the Lithosphere. At present he is Director of the
Mineralogy and Petrography Institute in Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk. He is in
charge of a wide-ranging research program which includes: the reconstruction of
the geologic mineralogical process formation of diamond deposits as a base for the
improvement of methods of forecasting their discovery; the crystallization,
dissolving and stability of diamonds and new methods of cutting and polishing
them; experimental modeling of minerals and the creation of rocks under conditions
of the earth's mantle; research in the dynamics and kinetics of metamorphism,
analysis of specific metamorphic formations, and the development of models;
mineral groups of sillimanite, new raw material sources for the production of
aluminum, silumin, and fireproof materials; thermo-geochemical research of
magmatic and metamorphic processes and the creation of ores connected with them;
modeling hydrodynamic thermophysical and chemical processes of the creation of
minerals and of the dynamics of geologic systems; experimental crystal chemistry.
He received the Lenin Prize in 1976.
Sokolov, Boris S., D. GM. S. Born in 1914 in Vyshnii Volochek, in what is now
Kalinin Oblast. Russian geologist and paleontologist. Corresponding member of
the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the
Academy since 1958, and academician since 1968. He graduated from Leningrad
State University in 1937 and taught there from 1937 to 1945 and from 1945 to
1958. In 1958, he started working at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of
the Siberian Department of the Academy. He has been on the Novosibirsk
University faculty from 1960, becoming a professor there in 1964. Since 1960, he
has been Head of the Stratigraphy of Precambrian and Paleozoic Laboratory of the
Geology and Geophysics Institute in Novosibirsk that was established in 1958 to
discover and develop Siberian mineral resources. In 1972, he was made Vice
President of the International Paleontological Union. He has been Academician
Secretary of the geology, geophysics and geochemistry section of the AN SSSR
from 1975. His work is in the Paleozoic corals, Proterozoic and Cambrian
Organisms, the history of the development of the organic world during the
Precambrian, and the biostratigraphy during the first half of the Paleozoic. He
identified the Wend complex. In 1974, he was elected President of the All-Union
Paleontological Society of the Academy. In 1975, he became a member of the
Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1968, he has been an
honorary member of the Geological Society of Sweden, and since 1963, a member
of the Geological Society of France. Lenin Prize, 1967. He received the coveted A.
P. Karpinskii Gold Medal in 1979 for his work in geological research. He heads
the Precambrian Paleontology Laboratory of the Paleontological Institute and
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