Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (Никола́й Васи́льевич Бело́в; December 14, 1891 – March 6, 1982) was a Soviet crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).

Honours and awards

 * Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
 * Four Orders of Lenin (1961, 1969, 1971, 1981)
 * Order of the October Revolution (1975)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1953)
 * Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1944)
 * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1946)
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948)
 * Medal "For Labour Valour" (1967)
 * Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
 * Stalin Prize, 1st class (1952)
 * Lenin Prize (1974)
 * First Prize Fedorov (USSR, 1948)
 * Lomonosov Gold Medal (1965)
 * Gold Medal Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR (1962)
 * Medal K. Ohridski (Sofia University K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, 1971)
 * Honorary member of the All-Union Mineralogical Society (1964)
 * First chairman of the National Committee of Soviet crystallographers (1955-1982)
 * Member of the Board (1954), Vice-President (1957-1963), president (1966-1969) of the International Union of Crystallography
 * Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1978)
 * Honorary Doctor of Wroclaw University B. Bierut (Poland, 1975)
 * Honorary member of the Mineralogical Society USA (1960), England, Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography, France (1969), Geological Society of the GDR (1975), American Society of crystallographic (1969)