Victor Drits (; November 25, 1932 – September 10, 2025)Новости, Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, including an announcement of Drits's death (retrieved February 23, 2026 was a Soviet and Russian geologist, mineralogist, and crystallographer, professor, deputy director of the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Russian Academy of Sciences (1988–1992). He was an expert in structural mineralogy and chemistry,Дриц Виктор Анатольевич with special interests in clay minerals.THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER, The Clay Minerals Society, June 2018
Victor Drits graduated from Irkutsk State University in 1955. In 1961 obtained his Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics and Crystallography from the Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR.К 80-ЛЕТИЮ В.А. ДРИЦА, Литология и полезные ископаемые, 2013, no 3, pp 294-296INTRODUCTION OF VICTOR A. DRITS, Clays and Clay Minerals (2001) 49 (1): 107–108.
Awards 1996: Bailey Distinguished Member Award, Clay Minerals Society Doctor Honoris Causa of the Orléans University, FranceДРИЦ Виктор Анатольевич Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Monographs Рентгеноструктурный анализ смешанослойных минералов, by В. А. Дриц, Б. А. Сахаров. - Москва : Наука, 1976 Структурное исследование минералов методами микродифракции электронов и электронной микроскопии высокого разрешения, by В. А. Дриц. - Москва : Наука, 1981 Гипергенные окислы марганца, by , А. И. Горшков, В. А. Дриц АН СССР, Ин-т геологии руд. месторождений, петрографии, минералогии и геохимии. - Москва : Наука, 1989. - 207 с.; ISBN 5-02-003198-4 Глинистые минералы: Смектиты, смешанослойные образования, by В. А. Дриц, - Москва : Наука, 1990. - 211 с. - (Тр. / АН СССР, Геол. ин-т; ISSN 0002-3272).; ISBN 5-02-002128-8 Глинистые минералы: слюды, хлориты, by В. А. Дриц, А. Г. Коссовская - Москва : Наука, 1991. - 174 с. - (Труды / АН СССР, Геол. ин-т, ISSN 0002-3272; Вып. 465).; ISBN 5-02-002160-1 Electron Diffraction and High-Resolution Electron Microscopy of Mineral Structures, Springer, 2012 X-Ray Diffraction by Disordered Lamellar Structures: Theory and Applications to Microdivided Silicates and Carbons, Springer, 2012
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