Open AccessIN MEMORIAM OF PROFESSOR PETRO F. GOZHIK, ACADEMICIAN OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE
Author(s) -
В.М. Шестопалов,
О.М. Ponomarenko,
S.B. Shekhunova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zbìrnik naukovih pracʹ ìnstitutu geologìčnih nauk nan ukraïni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-9761
pISSN - 2522-9753
DOI - 10.30836/igs.2522-9753.2021.232269
Subject(s) - geologist , quaternary , geology , neogene , chinese academy of sciences , stratigraphy , archaeology , ukrainian , paleontology , china , geography , philosophy , linguistics , structural basin , tectonics
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.