Alexander Fersman

Alexander Fersman, commemorated on a stamp of the USSR

Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman (Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман) (October 27 (N.S. November 8), 1883, Saint Petersburg - May 20, 1945, Sochi) was a prominent Soviet geochemist and mineralogist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919).

Alexander Fersman was awarded the Lenin Prize (1929), USSR State Prize (1942), Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (1943), and Order of the Red Banner of Labor.^{[citation needed]}

The Fersman Mineralogical Museum, the minerals fersmite and fersmanite, a crater on the Moon, and streets in a number of Russian cities (Moscow, Monchegorsk, etc.) are named after Alexander Fersman.