Aleksandre Tvalchrelidze

Alexander Tvalchrelidze ( December 1, 1881 – July 29, 1957) was a Georgian geologist. Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1947), professor (1919), Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1946). He led numerous expeditions that discovered useful deposits of metals, marble, and in particular, clay deposits. The mineral of Tvalchrelidzeite is named after Alexander Tvalchrelidze.

Biography Alexander Tvalchrelidze was born on 1 December 1881 in the Stanitsa Batalpashinskaya in the family of the distinguished teacher and public figure Anton Tvalchrelidze. In 1900 Alexander Tvalchrelidze finished the stavropol gymnasium and in the same year entered the Moscow University.

In the spring 1928, to study the properties of the clay from Cumbri he ran a series of tests first in the Central Laboratory of the "Azneft" and next in the laboratory of the oil syndicate in Batumi and in the laboratory of the Tbilisi University. He was awarded two Order of Lenin and three Order of the Red Banner of Labor.