ACADEMICIAN ALEXANDER LISITSYN – LIFE IN GEOLOGY

Abstract

Academician Alexander Petrovich Lisitzin is an outstanding pioneer scientist in the field of ocean sedimentogenesis, whose works forced to revise the previously prevailing ideas about the patterns of modern and ancient sedimentation in the World Ocean, founder of the School of marine geology in Russia, who worked for more than 70 years at the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.