Fedor Petrovich Melnikov

Born May 10, 1925, Mr.. on the farm Grushin Serafimovicheskogo district of the Volgograd Region. He graduated from the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1960).

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1965), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1990). Professor (1993). Senior Researcher Department of Geology and Geochemistry of Mineral Geology Faculty (1986).

. Member of the Scientific Council of RAS on the methods of mineralogical studies (1980), vice-chairman of the International Commission for the ore-forming solutions in the inclusions (1972-1982)
. Chairman of the Moscow Branch of the All-Union Research Section of inclusions in minerals (1965-1983). Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Geology (1967-1968, 1991). Member of the expert committee on the WAC Geological Sciences (1967-1976). Member (1976), Deputy. Chairman (1991), a specialized council at MSU. Member of the editorial board of interuniversity collection of proceedings geology, prospecting and exploration of non-metallic minerals (1980).

. Research interests: development challenges thermobarogeochemistry endogenous processes on the basis of experimental and analytical studies of fluid inclusions in minerals
. He was the first in the experimental practice were reproduced primary inclusion mikrominerallah-prisoners. Based on various studies multiphase inclusions in fluorite obtained previously unknown information about the composition of minerals-prisoners, . on the density of the mineral solution and the concentration of metals in it, . and concluded that the separation of ore-forming fluids from the magma in a highly concentrated melt-brine,
. They are justified and implemented in the practice of experimental research method Cryometric inclusions. Identified and investigated include hydrocarbons in various endogenous minerals, proposed a classification according to composition and phase state. Are focusing on the role of hydrocarbons in the endogenous ore formation. Together with BA Sokolov created the theory of the hydrocarbon field of the Earth (1981). Author educational and scientific films on the dynamics of physical and chemical processes and phenomena occurring within the fluid inclusions in their heating and cooling in a wide range of positive and negative temperatures (from -195 C to +1500 C). Topic of Ph.D. thesis: Conditions for the formation of pegmatites Central Kazakh fields. Subject doctoral dissertation: thermobarogeochemistry hydrothermal process in relation to identifying the role of hydrocarbons in the endogenous mineralization.

. He lectures and conducts workshops at the rate of Laboratory Methods of minerals, ores and rocks.

. He has published over 130 scientific papers.