Alexander Pavlovich VINOGRADOV Chemist; (b. Petretsovo, 9 August 1895 – d. Moscow, 16 November 1975)

University professor, Moscow State University, head of the Department for Geochemistry (1953–1974); director of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, ASciences of USSR (1947–1953)

Membership of SASA: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: foreign member from 17 December 1959

Awards and recognitions: USSR State Prize (three times); Order of Lenin (five times); Hero of Socialist Labour  (1949; 1951)

Obituary: God./SANU 83 (1976) 199-200 (P. Savić, Z. Maksimović)

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