Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov was a Soviet geochemist, academician, and Hero of Socialist Labour.
In 1928, he took up a position as assistant professor in the laboratory for biogeochemical problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
Born: August 21, 1895, Petretsovo, Russia
Died: November 16, 1975 (age 80 years), Moscow, Russia
Notable students: Vladimir Khalkin and Valeri Barsukov
Education: Voyenno-Meditsinskaya Akademiya Imeni S. M. Kirova (1924) and Saint Petersburg State University