peoplepill id: nikolay-shatsky
NS
Russia
8 views today
8 views this week
Nikolay Shatsky
Soviet geologist

Nikolay Shatsky

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Soviet geologist
A.K.A.
Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatsky
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Moscow, Russia
Place of death
Moscow, Russia
Age
65 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatsky (Nicholas Shatski, Russian: Николай Серге́евич Шатский) (August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1895 in Moscow – August 1, 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, an expert in tectonics of ancient platforms.

Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateau in North Pacific is named after him.

Since 1982 the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences has awarded the annual Shatsky Prize (ru:Премия имени Н. С. Шатского) for achievements in tectonics.

Awards

  • 1946: Stalin Prize
  • 1958: Lenin Prize, for the composition of the tectonic map of the Soviet Union
  • Order of Lenin (2)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Medals
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Nikolay Shatsky is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Nikolay Shatsky
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes