Ivan Kostov Nikolov

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.[1][2][3]

Ivan Kostov
Иван Костов Николов
Born	24 December 1913 O.S. Plovdiv, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Died	31 March 2004 (aged 90) Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria
Nationality	Bulgarian
Alma mater	Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"; Royal School of Mines, London Imperial College
Known for	Kostov's Classification of Minerals
Scientific career
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)

Honors and recognitions [4]

• 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.[5]
• A genus of cretaceous ammonites was named in his honour.[6]

Selected publications

• Kostov, Ivan; Kostov, Ruslan I. (1999). Crystal Habits of Minerals. Sofia: Academic Publishing House "Marin Drinov". OCLC 488807766.
• Kostov, Ivan (1968). Embrey, Peter G.; Phemister, James (eds.). Mineralogy; author's translation. Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd. OCLC 42358.

References

1. Bonev, Ivan K. (2004), "In Memoriam Academician Ivan Kostov (1913-2004)", Mineral. Mag., 68 (4): 709–711; via http://www.geology.bas.bg
2. "In Memoriam: Ivan Kostov (24.12.1913-31.03.2004)" (PDF), Geologica Balcanica, 34 (3–4): 111–112, 2004, retrieved 3 May 2018
3. Kostov, Ivan Nikolov (1979) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Retrieved April 16, 2012.
4. Костов, Руслан; Братанова, Фани (2013). Живот, посветен на науката, Академик Иван Костов, Планетарна импресия. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House.
5. Terziev G. (1966), "Kostovite, A Gold-Copper Telluride from Bulgaria" (PDF), American Mineralogist, 51: 29–36, retrieved May 3, 2018
6. Breskovski St. (1977), "Genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea)", C.R. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 30 (10): 1463–1465

External links

• In Memoriam Ivan Kostov, on the page of the Bulgarian Mineralogical Society, Accessed on 16 April 2012.
• Obituary of Ivan Kostov on the page of The Geological Society of London, Accessed on 16 April 2012.
• I Kostov publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Works by or about Ivan Kostov Nikolov in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Quotations related to Ivan Kostov Nikolov at Wikiquote

See also

• List of minerals approved by IMA
• Sigmund Zois