In loving memory...

Nikolay Vassil'evich Belov (1891 - 1982) Russian Soviet Crystallographer and Mineralogist. Proceedings in the field of Crystallography, Crystal Chemistry, Structural Mineralogy, Theory and Practice of X-ray Diffraction Analysis of crystalline substances. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Member of numerous foreign Scientific Societies. Member (1954-1956), Vice-President (1957-1965), President (1966 -1969) of the Executive Committee of International Union of Crystallography Outstanding Citizen of the USSR - Hero of Socialist Labor, Winner of Lenin and State National Prizes, rewarded with numerous State Awards. * * * * * The structures of more than 500 crystalline substances (including over 200 minerals) have been studied under the scientific leadership of N.V. Belov