Nikolay Shatsky

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

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

Since 1982 the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences awards the annual Shatsky Prize (ru:Премия имени Н. С. Шатского) for achievements in tectonics.^[2]

Awards

• 1946: Stalin Prize
• 1958: Lenin Prize, for the composition of the tectonic map of the Soviet Union
• Order of Lenin (2)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Medals

References

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

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Name	Shatsky, Nikolay Sergeyevich
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Date of birth	1895
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Date of death	1960
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