In the book geochemistry for Everyone Academician A. Fersman offers an entertaining account of the many years of work he devoted to developing geochemistry, the new branch of geological science, and strives to show the chemical life our planet as it appeared to his imagination enriched by extensive scientific experience. This new branch of science about the earth came into being in the beginning of our century and is set forth in the works of the outstanding Soviet scientists-Academicians V. Vernadsky and A. Fersman. It book a lot of work and time before general ideas of the chemical composition of the earth's crust could emerge from the separate and isolated observations. The progress made by nuclear physics and chemistry, the sciences about the structure of matter, helped the geologist and mineralogist to get a clear insight into the distribution and cycle of matter in the earth's crust. Man was able to grasp the unity of processes which take place in the minutest particles of matter, i.e., atoms and molecules, and in its tremendous universal condensations,i.e., the suns and the remotest stars. The science of geochemistry was coming into being,a science which leads us into the field of accomplishment made by chemical physic, cosmic chemistry and astrophysics and which, at the same time, subjoins the achievements of these sciences to the problems of studying minerals. Alexander fersman was an enthusiast of geochemistry, one who had a profound understanding of its significance to the economic and cultural life of the country.

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