Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

Nikolay Belov
Николай Белов
Belov in 1952
Born
Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov

December 14, 1891
Janów Lubelski, Lublin Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
DiedMarch 6, 1982 (aged 90)
Moscow, Soviet Union

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]

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]

  1. ^ Vainshtein B.K. and Simonov V.I. (1982). Obituary: Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov 14 December 1891-6 March 1982, Acta Cryst., A38, 561-562, doi:10.1107/S056773948200120X
  2. ^ Pavlishin V.I. (2017). Nikolay V. Belov, an outstanding crystallographer and crystal chemist of the 20th century, Mineralogical Almanac, 22(1), 57
  3. ^ Belov, N.V. and Tarkhova, T.N. (1956). Colour symmetry groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 1(1), 5-11