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Nikolay Shatsky

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Soviet geologist
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Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatsky, also spelt Nicholas Shatski (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Шатский; August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1895 in Moscow – August 1, 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, an expert in tectonics of ancient platforms.

Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateau in North Pacific is named after him.

Since 1982 the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences has awarded the annual Shatsky Prize (ru:Премия имени Н. С. Шатского) for achievements in tectonics.

Awards

References

  1. Шатский Николай Сергеевич, an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  2. Shatsky Prize website


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