Alexander Yanshin
Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin (Russian: Александр Леонидович Яншин; 1911, Smolensk - 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian geologist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1958). From 1982 to 1988, Yanshin served as Vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[1] From 1967, Yanshin served as President of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
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His father was a lawyer.[2] He studied at the Moscow State University.[2]
He received the Candidate's degree from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1937.[2] In 1952, he defended his doctoral dissertation.[2] He was elected a Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1958.[1]
Honors and awards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944)[2]
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1945)[2]
- Alexander Karpinsky Prize (1953)[2]
- Order of Lenin (1967, 1971, 1981)[2]
- USSR State Prize (1969, 1978)[2]
- Alexander Karpinsky Gold Medal (1973)[1]
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)[2]
- Order of the October Revolution (1986)[2]
- Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov Prize (1994)[1]
Links
- www.ras.ru http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-83.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12. Retrieved 2018-05-31. Missing or empty
|title=(help) Russian Academy of Sciences official site (in Russian) - С, Чесноков В.; Александрович, Агаджанян Николай (July 14, 2011). "Академик александр Леонидович Яншин к 100-летию со дня рождения". Экология человека (9) – via cyberleninka.ru.
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