OUTSTANDING UKRAINIAN SCIENTIST OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ACADEMICIAN MYKOLA PANTELEIMONOVYCH SEMENENKO (to the 110th anniversary from birthday)

Abstract

The life and career of Mykola Panteleimonovych Semenenko, an outstanding Ukrainian So-viet scientist in the field of petrology, geochemistry, geochronology and ore content of Precam-brian and Phanerozoic have been analyzed. It is possible to allocate four periods in the life and career of M. Semenenko: Mariupol-Berdyansk (1905–1921), Dnipropetrovsk (1921–1941), Vladykavkaz-Irkutsk (1941–1944) and Kyiv (1944–1996). M. Semenenko is the author of more than 600 scientific works, including more than 30 mo-nographs, mainly sole. Published works are devoted to such fields of research: metamorphism, metasomatism and metamorphic formations; magmatism and systematic classification of rocks; problems of metal-bearingness and structure of ore deposits; geochronology of the Ukrainian shield. M. Semenenko was the founder of new scientific directions of the then geological science, which have not lost the advanced positions now. He was the organizer of the fundamental re-searches that brought international fame and recognition of the Ukrainian geological science. Mykola Semenenko – the initiator of creation of new scientific academia of geological, physical, mathematical, chemical and biological profiles, the founder of the research institute of a new pro-file – Institute of Geochemistry and Physics of Minerals (now Institute of Geochemistry, Miner-alogy and Ore Formation of NASU). He contributed to the establishment and development of a new direction in mineralogy – physics of minerals in Ukraine. Also the merit of the academician M. Semenenko in the study of cosmic matter in Ukraine is significant. The important result of the space interests of scientist was the creation of oxygen-hydrogen model of the Earth.