Nina Vedeneyeva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nina Vedeneyeva

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1882

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1955

Profession: physicist, academic

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nina Yevgenyevna Vedeneyeva (Russian: ???? ?????????? ?????????, 1 December 1882 – 31 December 1955) was a Russian physicist involved in the study of mineral crystals and their coloration.
Heading numerous departments at such institutions as the All-USSR Institute of Mineral Resources, the Institute of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Crystallography, she conducted research into color variants of clay minerals and classifying clays which occurred in organic dyes.
She was noted for development and design of instruments to improve the methods of optical crystallography.
She was the last partner-muse of the poet Sophia Parnok and was awarded the Stalin Prize and Order of Lenin for her scientific studies and inventions.