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Vladimir Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on the 12th of March 1863. His father Ivan Vernadsky served as a professor of political economy at St. Vladimir University before moving to the capital city.
Vladimir Vernadsky first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the idea of the biosphere. He argued that Earth's development follows three stages: the geosphere, the biosphere, and finally the noosphere.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s Vladimir Vernadsky played an advisory role in the Soviet atomic bomb project. He served as one of the most forceful voices arguing for exploitation of nuclear power and pushed for surveying Soviet uranium sources.
The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine serves as the main academic library in that country today while Tavrida National University in Simferopol bears his name. An Antarctic station named Akademik Vernadsky honors his legacy in polar regions alongside a mountain range extending from the Gamburtsev Mountain Range.
He died on the 6th of January 1945 after decades of service. In 1943 he received the Stalin Prize for his contributions to science and remained active until the end of his life despite advancing age.