Boris Sokolov (geologist)

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Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (

In 1958 Sokolov accepted an invitation to join the newly formed Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member, and moved to Novosibirsk. Together with Vladimir Saks (1911–1979) Sokolov created a new Siberian school of stratigraphy and paleontology, which survived into the 21st century as the Institute of Oil and Gas Geology. Sokolov continued production of geological references, but eventually concentrated on his theory of the transition from Vendian (Ediacaran) biota to Cambrian, which he believed was critical to our understanding of evolution. He coined the Russian term for Precambrian Paleontology (Палеонтология докембрия), which evolved into a separate branch of science.^[2]

Sokolov was elected to full membership of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1968, and headed the Department of Geology of the Academy from 1975 to 1987, the longest tenure since the establishment of the Department. He chaired the International Stratigraphic Commission and the International Paleontology Association from 1972 until his death, and the national Paleontological Society from 1974 until his death. In 1998 Sokolov became the first geologist to be awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal.^[2]

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References

• N. Dobretsov et al. (2004, in Russian). Академик Борис Сергеевич Соколов Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine. Nauka v Sibiri, No. 14 (2450), April 9, 2004. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
• The 95th Birthday of Boris Sergeevich Sokolov. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, Volume 17, no. 2 (April 2009), pp. 113–116.
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  . Translated from a Russian editorial in Stratigrafia i geologicheskaya korrelacia, 2009, vol. 17 no. 2, pp. 3–6.