Abstract
Abstract. Vladimir Ivanovitch Vernadsky was a Russian mineralogist and crystallographer by training (St. Petersburg Univ.). He was born in St. Petersburg, on the 12th of March 1863, and died on the 6th of January 1945, in Moscow. About 1910, he became a geochemist and later on a founding father of Biogeochemistry, due to his concern with the "questions related to the importance of life on the geological history of the Earth". This new direction was the result of his field observations, of his broad mineralo-geological knowledge, and his studies, from 1917, on the phenomena of life in the biosphere, confirmed by many of his readings, like the book by Clarke (1908), "The Data of Geochemistry", and in particular the "Hydrogéologie" of J. B. Lamarck (1802). From this, and knowing the Lamarck work, and the Suess work and the definition of a biosphere he redefined and worked the biosphere concept in larger biogeochemical terms.
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AGORA is a lighter channel of communication between readers and contributors; it aims to stimulate discussion and debate, by presenting new ideas and by suggesting alternative interpretations to the more formal research papers published in WEB ECOLOGY and elsewhere
About 1910, he became a geochemist and later on a founding father of Biogeochemistry, due to his concern with the “questions related to the importance of life on the geological history of the Earth”
This new direction was the result of his field observations, of his broad mineralo-geological knowledge, and his studies, from 1917, on the phenomena of life in the biosphere, confirmed by many of his readings, like the book by Clarke (1908), “The Data of Geochemistry”, and in particular the “Hydrogéologie” of
Summary
AGORA is a lighter channel of communication between readers and contributors; it aims to stimulate discussion and debate, by presenting new ideas and by suggesting alternative interpretations to the more formal research papers published in WEB ECOLOGY and elsewhere. They are linked by the phenomena of life: “the chemistry of the biosphere is completely impregnated by life’s phenomena, by the cosmic energy absorbed by it, and cannot be understood even in its more general traits without bringing to light the place occupied by the living matter in the mechanism of the biosphere” (Vernadsky 1929 §62).
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