IN MEMORIAM OF PROFESSOR PETRO F. GOZHIK, ACADEMICIAN OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

This article is devoted to the blessed memory of Petro F. Gozhik, prominent Ukrainian scientist in the fields of paleontology, stratigraphy, marine geology, Winner of the State Prizes of Ukraine in Science and Technology (1989, 2000), Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (1997), Laure...

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Main Authors: Шестопалов, В'ячеслав, Пономаренко, Олександр, Шехунова, Стелла
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Institute of Geological Sciences, NAS of Ukraine 2021
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Online Access:http://archive-transactions.igs-nas.org.ua/article/view/232269
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Summary:This article is devoted to the blessed memory of Petro F. Gozhik, prominent Ukrainian scientist in the fields of paleontology, stratigraphy, marine geology, Winner of the State Prizes of Ukraine in Science and Technology (1989, 2000), Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (1997), Laureate of NAS Tutkovsky Prize (2008), Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine (1997–2020), President of the Paleontological Society of Ukraine, Chairman of the National Stratigraphic Committee of Ukraine, initiator and the first Director of the National Antarctic Research Center (previously the Center for Antarctic Research of the NAS of Ukraine), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1993), Professor (2008), Academician of the NAS of Ukraine (2006). Scientific interests of P. F. Gozhik were diverse, but, first he was an outstanding paleontologist and stratigrapher, Quaternary geologist, a renowned researcher of the Neogene — Quaternary fossil freshwater mollusks of the south of Eastern Europe. His works in Quaternary stratigraphy, paleogeography and the geological history of continental Ukraine and the Black Sea, the study of Quaternary mollusks, continental (alluvial, glacial, water-glacial, loess) and estuarine sediments became tabletop reference books. Статья посвящена памяти выдающегося украинского ученого в области палеонтологии, стратиграфии, морской геологии, лауреата Государственных премий Украины в области науки и техники (1989, 2000), заслуженного деятеля науки и техники Украины (1997), лауреата премии им. П.А. Тутковского НАН Украины (2008), директора Института геологических наук НАН Украины (1997–2020), президента и Палеонтологического общества Украины, председателя Национального стратиграфического комитета Украины, инициатора создания и первого директора Национального антарктического научного центра (тогда — Центра антарктических исследований) , доктора геолого-минералогических наук (1993), профессора (2008), академика НАН Украины (2006) Петра Феодосиевича Гожика. ...