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Vladimir Porfiriev

Russian geologist

Died when: 82 years 218 days (991 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Vladimir Porfiriev

Vladimir Borisovich Porfiryev, Russian: ?????´??? ????´????? ?????´????, (June 26, 1899 in Vyatka, now Kirov, Russia – January 30, 1982 in Kiev) was a Russian and Ukrainian petroleum and coal geologist.

Porfiryev was one of the major proponents of the theory of the origin of Abiogenic petroleum, that is, that petroleum was formed by primordial non-biological processes rather than from the decaying remains of plant and animal life.


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