Ivan Nikolov Kostov

Kostov, Ivan Nikolov

 

Born Dec. 24, 1913, in Plovdiv. Bulgarian mineralogist. Academician of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1967); corresponding member, 1961). Kostov did specialized study in Great Britain from 1940 to 1945. In 1953 he became a professor and head of the subdepartment of mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Sofia. His work involves theoretical problems related to the classification, paragenesis, morphology, and crystallography of minerals.

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Mineralite v Bulgariia. Sofia, 1964. (Coauthor.)
In Russian translation: Kristallografiia. Moscow, 1965.
Mineralogiia. Moscow, 1971.