thesis_year native_name_lang death_date birth_place citizenship awards nationality fields native_name birth_date article_title name alma_mater
1945 russian 02 september 2013 vyshny volochyok soviet union , russian federation state -rrb- prize for 1967 lomonosov gold medal -lrb- 1997 russian geology , paleontology Борис Серге́евич Соколов 09 april 1914 boris sergeyevich sokolov
 boris sergeyevich sokolov leningrad university
boris sergeyevich sokolov

boris sergeyevich sokolov -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- april 9 , 1914 -- september 2 , 2013 -rrb- was a russian geologist and paleontologist .
sokolov authored reference works on the stratigraphy of eastern europe , in particular the fossil coral records , and created the concept of `` vendian period '' , currently recognized as largely overlapping , but not fully equivalent to ediacaran .
