Viktor Khain#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1559 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
Viktor Khain passed away on December 24, 2009.
Positions Held
- Aademician on geotectonics and geophysics of USSR Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Professorship in the oil and gas geology department at the Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
- Head of the regional geology department at the Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Geology
- Geophysicist
- Seismic and volcanic activity cycles
Honours and Awards
- USSR State Prize (1987)
- Gustav-Steinmann-Medal of the German Geological Society (1991)
- Alexander Karpinsky gold medal (1992)
- Lomonosov prize (1993) for “Global tectonics of Earth” series
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995) for a number of fundamental scientific works
- Honorary president of World Organization for Scientific Cooperation|WOSCO (World Organization for Scientific Cooperation)
- Honorary Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dynamic Geology department
- Honorary President of the International Academy of Science, Munich
