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Vernadsky, in full Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, (born March 12, 1863, St. Petersburg, Russia—died January 6, 1945, Moscow), Russian mineralogist and geochemist, regarded as one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He advanced the concept of the biosphere as the region of the Earth where living and nonliving things interact.