Yekaterina Ankinovich Explained

Yekaterina Alexandrovna Ankinovich (1911-1991) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist, Doctor of Sciences and professor. She discovered a record number of minerals - 12. She won the Lenin Prize and the Stalin Prize.

Biography

Ankinovich was born in Little Yalchik (now Chuvashia).^[1]

In 1937, she graduated from Leningrad Mining Institute (now Saint Petersburg Mining University). In 1964, she earned a Doctor of Sciences in Geology and Mineralogy.

She worked in the geological service of Kazakhstan including in Alma-Ata and Karatau.

Ankinovich became a professor in 1967. She later became head of the department of "crystallography, mineralogy and petrography."^[1]

Stalin Prize Third Degree (USSR State Prize) 1948 for "geological research and development of the Nikolaevsky polymetal deposit"^[1]
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Honored Scientist of the Kazakhstani SSR (1974)^[2]
USSR Deposit Discoverer Medal
Lenin Prize^[3]

She has a mineral named after her - Ankinovichit.^[4] ^[5]

Her husband Stepan Gerasimovich Ankinovich was also a Soviet geologist.^[6]