Alexander Fersman
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Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman (Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман) (October 27 (N.S. November 8), 1883, Petersburg - May 20, 1945, Sochi) was a prominent Soviet geochemist and mineralogist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919).
Alexander Fersman was awarded the Lenin Prize (1929), USSR State Prize (1942), Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (1943), and Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
The Fersman Mineralogical Museum, the minerals fersmite and fersmanite and a crater of the Moon are named after Alexander Fersman.
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