Nikolay Sobolev

Nikolay Vladimirovich Sobolev
Николай Владимирович Соболев
Nick Sobolev 2016
Born(1935-05-28)May 28, 1935
Died(2022-03-25)March 25, 2022
Novosibirsk, Russia
Alma materLviv State University (graduated 1958)
Known forMineral and fluid inclusions in diamonds; kimberlites and mantle xenoliths; evidence for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in crustal rocks (Kokchetav Massif)
AwardsLenin Prize (1976)
IMA Medal of Excellence in Mineralogical Sciences (2013)
Friedrich-Becke Medal (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMineralogy
Petrology
Geochemistry
InstitutionsSiberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk)
Institute of Geology and Geophysics (SB AS USSR)
Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography (SB RAS)
V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy (SB RAS)

Nikolay Vladimirovich Sobolev (Russian: Никола́й Влади́мирович Со́болев; 28 May 1935 – 25 March 2022) was a Soviet and Russian mineralogist, petrologist, and geochemist who studied processes in the lithospheric mantle and was a member of Russian (USSR), European, US National, and Italian Academies of Sciences.