Taisiya Maksimovna Stadnichenko

Taisiya Maksimovna Stadnichenko
Born
Стадниченко, Таисия Максимовна

9.10.1894
Russian Empire
Died26.11.1958 (64 years)
USA
Alma materSaint Petersburg University
Scientific career
Fieldsgeology, geochemistry

Taisia Stadnichenko (Taisiya Maximovna Stadnichenko; 9 October 1894 – 26 November 1958), a Russian-born geologist and chemist, whose fieldwork focused on the distribution of germanium and the minor-element content in coal.[1]

Biography

She was born in Taganash, Perekopsky Uyezd, Crimea, on October 9, 1894, and died on November 26, 1958, at the age of sixty-four due to a heart ailment.[2]

She attended Petrograd University and joined the Russian Geological Survey before moving to the United States in 1918 to act as an interpreter for the Russian mission throughout World War I.

After the war, she continued her professional life as a researcher at the University of Illinois and as a professor at Vassar College from 1922 to 1935.[2]

In 1935, Stadnichenko led the first U.S Geological Survey exploring the minor-element distribution within coal by collecting samples of coal ash for element content analysis, which found germanium and other elements within the coal ash.[3] Stadnichenko is widely considered instrumental in the discovery and understanding of coal's structure and origin.[2]

References

  1. ^ Breger, Irving. "BIOLOGICAL SKETCHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS" (PDF). RRUFF Data. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003-12-16). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135963439.
  3. ^ Zubovic, Peter; Stadnichenko, Taisia; Sheffey, Nola B. (1961-01-01). Geochemistry of Minor Elements in Coals of the Northern Great Plains Coal Province. U.S. Government Printing Office.


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