Biography of the Vernadian philosopher

After the gymnasium in the city of Vladimir Vernadsky became a student of the natural department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University. In those years, D. Mendeleev, A. Beketov, V. Dokuchaev, I. Sechenov, A. Mendeleev opened the world of science, showed the power of scientific thought and the significance of chemistry. Dokuchaev was his leader in geology and mineralogy, which Vernadsky chose his specialty.

In his student years, Vernadsky began to study the fundamental problems of land sciences. Under the influence of V. Dokuchaev, he developed ideas about the relationship of living beings with the environment, taking into account their active influence on the processes of soil formation. Under the leadership of V. Dokuchaev, V. Vernadsky participated in soil expeditions in the Nizhny Novgorod and Poltava provinces, where he went through his first geological route and wrote the first scientific work.

Along with the scientific work of Vernadsky, the spirit of free thought characteristic of the capital's students. He actively participated in the public life of the university, worked in a student scientific and literary society, in a circle to study literature for the people. The acute public events, which were actively drawn by student, since then have never left Vernadsky indifferent.

In a year later, he married Natalya Egorovna Staritskaya, with whom they lived together for 56 years "soul to soul and thought in thought." There were two children in their family: son Georgy Vladimirovich Vernadsky-a well-known researcher of Russian history, daughter Nina Vladimirovna Vernadskaya-Tull-, psychiatrist; Both died in exile in the USA. Vernadsky was invited to the Department of Crystallography and Mineralogy of Moscow University, approved by the Guardian of the Mineralogical Cabinet.

Vernadsky, having defended the doctoral dissertation dedicated to the problems of crystallography, and next year is approved as an extraordinary professor. At Moscow University, V. Vernadsky worked for 20 fruitful years. Vernadsky with his students studied natural processes in the field, making excursions almost every summer: several times he was in the Urals, in the Crimea, Ukraine, in the North Caucasus and in the Transcaucasia, in the Dombrovsky Poland basin and in Central Russia.

During this period, V. Vernadsky conducts serious scientific work. In addition to scientific activity, V. Vernadsky was actively engaged in socio-political and state activities, which was closely connected, primarily with the Tambov region. The Vernovka estate, located in the Tambov province, he visited almost every summer for a year. Having actively joined the political life of the country in the framework of the activities of the Constitutional and Democratic Party, V.

Vernadsky becomes one of the leaders of the liberal direction in the struggle for the introduction of the principles of European democracy in Russia. During the first Russian revolution, V. Vernadsky takes an active part in the preparation and holding of the Constituent Congress of the Constitutional and Democratic Party, who advocated the judicial protection of human rights, the need to create a state with a limited monarchy, the need for cultural autonomy and the abolition of the death penalty.

BC During the October Bolshevik coup, Vernadsky heads the Ministry of Education in the Provided Government. The Bolsheviks perceive the victory as a tragic defeat of democracy and, under the threat of arrest, is forced to leave for Ukraine. In Ukraine, V. Vernadsky organized a serious scientific work, became the main ideologist, organizer and in the city after moving to Crimea to Vernadsky lectures on geochemistry at the Tauride University, and being elected rector, actively fought to maintain university education in Russia.

In the period for a year, he worked abroad in Prague and Paris, gave lectures in the Sorbonne, worked at the Museum of Natural History and the Curi Institute, where he investigated Parisia - a substance mistakenly accepted for a new radioactive element. In Paris in French, his fundamental work “Geochemistry” came out. Upon returning to the city, he formulated the concept of the biological structure of the ocean.

With the city of Vernadsky, he can no longer go abroad even at his own expense, despite the challenge of the University of Paris. In the summer of the year, the health of Vladimir Ivanovich worsened, and on the recommendations of a cardiologist, he leaves for treatment abroad, to the Karlsbad. After the course of treatment, he works in Paris, London, in Germany.

This was his last foreign business trip, in Europe the breath of the future war was felt. During the years of repression, Vernadsky left all administrative posts, remaining only a scientific consultant so as not to participate in “cleaning”. At the same time, he was elected a member of the geological, geographical, chemical, and physical and mathematical departments of the Academy of Sciences.

Vernadsky died on January 6 in Moscow. The main philosophical ideas of V. Vernadsky formed by the beginning of the X. Vernadsky came to the conclusion that the appearance of a person with his scientific thought was a natural stage in the evolution of the biosphere.As a result of human activity, the biosphere should inevitably radically change and go into a new state called the noosphere - the sphere of the NOOS mind - from the Greek mind.

This means that the noosphere is developing under the control of the mind, under the influence of conscious human activity, the geological shell of planet Earth. List of essays about the philosopher Vernadsky as a scientist and a person doctrine of the biosphere.