Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich (1863–1945)

The author of the developed concept of the "biosphere" and "noosphere", the initial ideas about which were formulated by the French scientists Jean Baptiste Lamarque and Eduard Leroy. "Biosphere" is a sphere of unity of the living and non-living, expressed in a system of interconnected ecosystems, and is the result of the development of the organic world. As scientific and technological progress, a person, being a part of it, began to exert a serious influence on it. According to V. I. Vernadsky's definition, the technogenic activity of mankind leads to the transformation of the "biosphere" into a qualitatively new state - the "noosphere" (from the Greek "noos" - the mind), which means "the sphere of reason", since "reason" becomes the most important element and a factor in the development of the "biosphere". Man appears as a planetary force, which affects the natural biogeochemical processes of the planet, formed millions of years