Kanysh Satbayev

Kanysh Satbayev
Satbayev depicted on a Kazakh 2024 stamp
Born(1899-04-12)12 April 1899
Pavlodar uezd, Semipalatinsk Oblast, Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, Russian Empire (now Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan)
Died31 January 1964(1964-01-31) (aged 64)
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR (now Moscow, Russia)
NationalityKazakh
CitizenshipUSSR
Alma materTomsk Polytechnic University
Known forFirst president of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
Awards4xOrder of Lenin, Order of the Patriotic War, Lenin Prize, Stalin Prize
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
InstitutionsKazakhstan Academy of Sciences

Kanysh Imantayuli Satbayev (11 April 1899 – 31 January 1964) was a Kazakh professor, geologist and one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny (specifically the Kazakhstani school) and the principal advocate and first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.

He was a doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1942), Professor (1950), Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1946), member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), and the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. He is famous as the geologist who discovered the Ulutau-Dzhezkazgan copper deposit that was, at the time, amongst the largest copper reserves discovered.

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