Nina Vedeneyeva

Nina Vedeneyeva
1932
Born	Nina Evgenievna Vedeneyeva (1882-12-01)1 December 1882 Tbilisi, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
Died	31 December 1955(1955-12-31) (aged 73) Moscow, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Other names	Nina Yevgenyevna Vedeneyeva, Nina Vedeneeva, Nina Sirotinsky-Vedeneyeva
Occupation	physicist
Years active	1914-1955
Known for	Crystallography

Nina Yevgenyevna Vedeneyeva (Russian: Нина Евгеньевна Веденеева; 1 December 1882 – 31 December 1955) was a Soviet physicist involved in the study of mineral crystals and their coloration. Heading numerous departments at such institutions as the All-USSR Institute of Mineral Resources, the Institute of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Crystallography, she conducted research into color variants of clay minerals and classifying clays which occurred in organic dyes. She was noted for development and design of instruments to improve the methods of optical crystallography. She was the last partner-muse of the poet Sophia Parnok and was awarded the Stalin Prize and Order of Lenin for her scientific studies and inventions.