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The origin of folding in the earth's crust. Journ. Geophys. 

 Res. 66, #7, 1961. 

 Office: Soviet Geophysical Committee 



USSR Academy of Sciences 

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Moscow, USSR 

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BELOV, NIKOLAI VASIL'EVICH (Crystallographer) 



N. V. Belov was born December 14, 1891. He graduated 

 from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1921. In 1938 he 

 joined the staff of the Crystallography Institute of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences. He was made professor in 1946 at 

 Gorkii University and in 1953 at Moscow University. Belov 

 became in 1954 a member of the Executive Committee and in 

 1957 vice-president of the International Crystallographic As- 

 sociation. He helped to organize the Leningrad and the Moscow 

 Crystallographic Museums. In 1946 Belov was elected a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 

 1953 an Academician. He received a Stalin Prize in 1952. 



Belov' s scientific work is in geometrical crystallography, 

 x-ray structure work, the practical application of symmetry 

 groups and Fourier's analysis to crystals. He developed a 

 theory of close packing of atoms in a crystal. As a result of 

 this theory a number of structures were established such as 

 epidote, woUastonite. Belov has trained many Soviet workers 

 in x-ray crystallography. 



Belov visited the United States in January 1960 to attend a 

 Crystallography Conference at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute. 

 Bibliography: 



Crystal structure of tourmaline. Doklady Akad. Nauk 



S.S.S.R., 1949, 69, #2. 



Crystal structure of milarite. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 



69, #3. 



Crystal structure of ramsite. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 



69, #6. 



Achievements in structural mineralogy. Izvest. Akad. Nauk 



S.S.S.R., Ser. Geol., 1949, #6. 



Structural Crystallography. Moscow: 1951. 



and others . 1651 Shubnikov group, from Trudy Instituta 



Kristallografii, #11. Moscow: 1955. 



