Kanysh Imantayuli Satpayev (
; ) (April 11, 1899 — January 31, 1964) is one of the founders of
Soviet
metallogeny, principal
advocate and the first president of Kazakhstan Academy of
Sciences.
Biography
Satpayev
was born in what is today Bayanaul
District, in Pavlodar Province
. Satpayev's interest in geology was sparked in childhood by Tomsk
geologist
Mikhail Usov. In 1921, he got
admitted to Tomsk Technological Institute
(now Tomsk Polytechnic University).
After
completing studies in 1926, Satpayev returned back to Kazakhstan
and became the first qualified Kazakh mining
engineer and geologist.
He died in
Moscow
, and is buried in Almaty
.
Legacy
Kanysh Satpayev left after himself more than 640 scientific
publications.
He created Institute of Geology which became
the center of studies of Kazakhstan mineral resources.
Satpayev
city in Karagandy Province
is named after him, as well as the water channel
Irtysh-Karaganda, mineral Satpayevite (6Al (OH)3×3v
(O2OH)×2v {O (OH)2}), Kazakh National Technical
University and numerous streets and schools in Kazakhstan. One of the
Main-belt Asteroids (
2402 Satpayev (1979 OR13)) was named after
Satpayev.
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