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Native name
  
Ivan Kostov Nikolov

Nationality
  
Bulgarian

Name
  
Ivan Nikolov


Ivan Kostov Nikolov

Born
  
24 December 1913 O.S.Plovdiv, Kingdom of Bulgaria (
1913-12-24
)

Died
  
31 March 2004 (2004-04-01) (aged 90)Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria

Fields
  
mineralogy; geology, X-ray crystallography

Institutions
  
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", London Imperial College, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria)

Alma mater
  
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", London Imperial College

Ivan Kostov Nikolov (Bulgarian: Иван Костов Николов) (December 24, 1913 (O.S.) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – March 31, 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian geologist, mineralogist and crystallographer.

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Honors and recognitions

  • President of the International Mineralogical Association (1982–1986)
  • Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London
  • Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Honorary Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Foreign Honorary Member of the Russian Mineralogical Society
  • Foreign Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
  • Founder and Honorary President of the Bulgarian Mineralogical Society
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Honorary citizen of Plovdiv
  • The Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was named after him.
  • The mineral kostovite was named in his honour.
  • A genus of cretaceous ammonites was named in his honour.

    • Selected publications

  • Ivan Kostov, Ruslan I. Kostov, Crystal Habits of Minerals, Sofia: Academic Publishing House "Marin Drinov", 1999.
  • Ivan Kostov, Mineralogy, Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1968.

    • References

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