Victor Drits

Victor Drits (; November 25, 1932 – September 10, 2025) was a Soviet and Russian geologist, mineralogist, and crystallographer, professor, deputy director of the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Russian Academy of Sciences (1988–1992). He was an expert in structural mineralogy and chemistry, with special interests in clay minerals.

Victor Drits graduated from Irkutsk State University in 1955. In 1961 obtained his Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics and Crystallography from the Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR.

Awards 1996: Bailey Distinguished Member Award, Clay Minerals Society Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Monographs Рентгеноструктурный анализ смешанослойных минералов, by В. А. Дриц, Б. А. Сахаров. - Москва : Наука, 1976 Структурное исследование минералов методами микродифракции электронов и электронной микроскопии высокого разрешения, by В. А. Дриц. - Москва : Наука, 1981 Гипергенные окислы марганца, by , А. И. Горшков, В. А. Дриц АН СССР, Ин-т геологии руд. месторождений, петрографии, минералогии и геохимии. - Москва : Наука, 1989. - 207 с.; ISBN 5-02-003198-4 Глинистые минералы: Смектиты, смешанослойные образования, by В. А. Дриц, - Москва : Наука, 1990. - 211 с. - (Тр. / АН СССР, Геол. ин-т; ISSN 0002-3272).; ISBN 5-02-002128-8 Глинистые минералы: слюды, хлориты, by В. А. Дриц, А. Г. Коссовская - Москва : Наука, 1991. - 174 с. - (Труды / АН СССР, Геол. ин-т, ISSN 0002-3272; Вып. 465).; ISBN 5-02-002160-1 Electron Diffraction and High-Resolution Electron Microscopy of Mineral Structures, Springer, 2012 X-Ray Diffraction by Disordered Lamellar Structures: Theory and Applications to Microdivided Silicates and Carbons, Springer, 2012