Ukraine 2 Hryvni 2003 - Volodymyr Vernadskyi

The coin is dedicated to Volodymyr Vernadskyi (12.03.1863–06.01.1945), an outstanding natural scientist and thinker; the founder of such modern sciences about the Earth, as geochemistry and biochemistry, an academician and the first president of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1919). His ideas played an important role in formation of the present-day scientific picture of the world and his doctrine on interrelation of the nature and the society influenced the formation of contemporary ecological perception. On the coin reverse there is a portrait of Volodymyr I.Vernadskyi (on the right); around the coin circumference there are inscriptions: В.І. ВЕРНАДСЬКИЙ (Volodymyr I.Vernadskyi -on the left and 1863-1945, his years of life made in two lines. On the coin obverse there is a depiction of the Earth, the cradle of mankind, above it there is the small National Emblem of Ukraine and inscriptions: УКРАЇНА, 2003 (Ukraine /2003) (above, in semicircle) 2 ГРИВНІ (2 /hryvnia) (beneath), and the Mint logotype of the National bank of Ukraine