Alexander Fersman

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Monument to Fersman in Apatity
Monument to Fersman in Apatity

Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman (Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман) (October 27 (N.S. November 8), 1883, Saint 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, a crater on the Moon, and streets in a number of Russian cities (Moscow, Monchegorsk, etc.) are named after Alexander Fersman.

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