Tasia Maximova Stadnichenko

Taisia Stadnichenko (Taisiya Maximovna Stadnichenko; 9 October 1894 – 26 November 1958) was a Russian-born geologist and chemist, whose fieldwork focused on the distribution of germanium and the minor-element content in coal. She worked for the Russian and US Geological Surveys, researched at the University of Illinois, and taught at Vassar College.

Biography Stadnichenko was born in Taganash, Perekopsky Uyezd, Crimea, on 9 October 1894. She was an associate geologist and then a geologist with the US Geological Survey from 1931 until 1958. Stadnichenko is widely considered instrumental in the discovery and understanding of coal's structure and origin.

Stadnichenko died on 26 November 26 1958, at the age of sixty-four due to a heart ailment. She never married.