Vernadsky and Rubakin: Identity of bibliocultural interests and mentality
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 03/22/2023 - 13:08The prominent Russian scientists, Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863–1945), whose 160-th anniversary we celebrate this year, and Nikolay A. (Nikolas) Rubakin (1862–1946), whose 160-th anniversary we celebrated last year, were both library workers and bibliographers. They both entered St. Petersburg Imperial University, the department for natural sciences of physics and mathemetics faculty, communicated closely when students, and maintained friends and scientific ties up to 1936. The cosmological and cosmographic ideas of Dmitry I. Mendeleev, their teacher, influenced them both. Like N.