Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov (born Oct. 17 [Oct. 30, New Style], 1907, Moscow, Russia—died Dec. 25, 1990) was a Soviet geologist and geophysicist who in 1942 advanced the theory that the Earth’s material has gradually differentiated according to its density to produce the present internal structure of the Earth and that this gradual movement is the basic cause of movements of the Earth’s crust. Belousov assumed direction of the department of geodynamics at the Academy of...