Felsmann became a famous "stone fan" among his friends, and as he grew older, he enjoyed it and became more and more infatuated. He found some books about rocks and began to learn to be a mineralogist. He put a label on every stone he collected and recorded their scientific names and places of discovery. In his eyes, every stone has a legendary and tortuous life experience and a touching and beautiful story. He deeply felt that nature itself is a book full of mysteries, waiting for people to understand it.
After graduating from high school, Felsmann entered Moscow University for further study. In the science museum of Moscow University, he eagerly studied the professional knowledge and basic knowledge about stones. He was very lucky that the teacher who taught him mineralogy was an outstanding Russian mineralogist, Professor Wernadsky. He just made the silent and hard stone come alive! The professor inculcates his students not only to study the properties and characteristics of minerals, but also to study their ins and outs, and treat them as a living life history. Only by understanding the causes and laws of mineralization in Chu can we find out where they are buried. The professor's words made his heart suddenly enlightened, just like a burning torch suddenly lit up in a dark quarry passage, illuminating his exploration path. He made up his mind to uncover the secret of mineral formation and find the golden key of underground treasure.
Felsmann knew that to become a mineralogist, we must attach importance to the combination of theoretical research and field investigation. He grasped the good times of college life, and often immersed himself in chemical experiments day and night, analyzing and measuring the chemical elements and their structures of various minerals, and exploring their migration laws in the depths of the earth. He often stayed up all night until Qing Gong Hao came in early in the morning to clean up, and then reluctantly put down his flask and test tube and left. On the other hand, he attaches importance to field trip, which is a bigger and more important course in the university. Every summer, he carries a backpack to practice in Ural Mountain, making friends with miners and worshiping them as teachers. Walking through dense forests, wading in rapids, climbing cliffs and drilling through mines, I am not afraid of danger, fatigue, wind and rain, and lightning.
Felsmann's unremitting efforts have achieved fruitful results. 1907 Before graduating from university, he published five papers under the guidance of Professor Vernadsky and won the Ann Sipov Gold Award from the Mineral Society. 19 10, 27-year-old Felsmann has been a professor of mineralogy. Two years later, he opened a new course, geochemistry, which was unprecedented in the history of world science. The factors that cause the migration of chemical elements are divided into two categories: internal factors related to atomic properties and external factors produced by the surrounding environment. He simplified the second law of crystal chemistry and put forward the concepts of energy coefficient, valence energy coefficient and biomass, which contributed to the discovery of important minerals such as phosphorus, copper, iron and nickel in the Soviet Union. In addition, he also put forward the origin and classification of pegmatite, which initiated the research field of regional geochemistry and deposit geochemistry.
19 19, Felsmann was elected as an academician of the Soviet academy of sciences and served as the curator of the museum of the academy of sciences. He carried out scientific research enthusiastically and tirelessly, and also carried out a lot of field work, and made outstanding pioneering achievements in many aspects. 1920 Autumn, Felsmann, who was excited by the Soviet era under Lenin's leadership, personally led a geological expedition into the Xibin tundra, which is 0/300 km away from Leningrad/Kloc-0. He led the expedition over the steep cliffs and through the wasteland where only wild deer dared to set foot, and finally found many rare minerals. 1926, they discovered a huge apatite deposit in the kukisumjor mountain of Xibin tundra. 1932 Ural branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences was established, and a large-scale multidisciplinary geological survey was organized three years later. Felsmann takes the lead and always commands at the front. What is important is that he is no longer alone as before, and his students and geologists have gradually mastered the scientific theory of geochemistry, which is the key he discovered to open the treasure house of the underground kingdom.
Felsmann also wrote many popular and interesting popular science books, such as Interesting Mineralogy, Interesting Geochemistry, My Travel, Memoirs of Rocks, Tales of Gems, Urals-the Treasure House of the Soviet Union, and History of Russian Stone Culture. 1934 ~ 1939 completed the magnum opus Geochemistry (4 volumes), which was the authoritative monograph of geochemistry at that time, and also the master key to unlock the secrets of chemical element changes in crustal movement, and was hailed as "an important milestone in the development of geochemistry". The Geological Society of London, England, awarded him a Wollaston Medal made of palladium, which Darwin had won before.
Love the motherland and devote oneself to science-this is the purpose of Felsmann's life, and he really contributed all his light and heat to it. 1945 At 0: 00 on May 20th, 1 1 point, in the picturesque Black Sea resort of Sochi, the heart of the "stone seeker" mineralogist Felsmann stopped beating at the age of 62. "He is exhausted ..." People commented with infinite regret. The sea shrouded in the night is sobbing not far away, and the nearby birch forest is whispering. In the ward, there is a typewriter on the desk, an unfinished manuscript, and a heavy research suitcase on the ground. They accompany their master quietly, as if telling a beautiful story silently. ...