Vladimir Bezsmertny

Vladimir Vasilyevich Bezsmertny (Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Безсме́ртный; 6 May 1912 – 2002) was a Russian geologist, mineralogist, petrographer and petrologist, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, specialist in the field of ore deposits, associate professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.[1]

In 1978, Vladimir Bezsmertny became one of the authors of the discovery of another new mineral, bilibinskite.[2] Four years later, this mineral became the title mineral for a new group of polymetallic tellurides called the bilibinskite group.[3]

In 1979, in honor of Vladimir Bezsmertny and his wife Marianna Bezsmertnaya (1915-1991), a new mineral found in Kamchatka, bezsmertnovite,[4] was named in composition — a complex plumbotelluride of gold, copper, iron and silver,[5] the brightness of the color surpasses even gold.[6]: 113 

  1. ^ E.M. Galimov, ed. (2019). "Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry named after V.I. Vernadsky RAS". Bulletin of the Commission for the Development of the Scientific Heritage of Academician V.I. Vernadsky. 23. Moscow: 279.
  2. ^ Spiridonov E., Bezsmertnaya M., Chvileva T., Bezsmertny V. Bilibinskite, Au3Cu2PbTe2, a new mineral gold-telluride deposits. Intern. Geol. Rev. 1979. Vol. 21. P. 1411–1415.
  3. ^ Spiridonov E., Chvileva T., New gold minerals — plumbotellurides of gold, copper, iron, silver (bilibinskite group). — Moscow: Notes of the Russian Mineralogical Society, 1982. — p. 140–147
  4. ^ Bezsmertnovite (A valid IMA mineral species): information about the mineral bezsmertnovite in the Mindat database.
  5. ^ Bezsmertnovite: Handbook of Mineralogy
  6. ^ Chvileva T.N., Bezsmertnaya M.S., Spiridonov E.M., Agroskin A.S. etc. Guide to identifying ore minerals in reflected light. — Moscow, Nedra Publishers, 1988. — 504 p.