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Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

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Nikolay Belov (geochemist)
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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]

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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]

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Career

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

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Works

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]

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Honours and awards

Organizational memberships

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References

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