Ivan Kostov Nikolov

Honors and recognitions

• President of the International Mineralogical Association
• Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London
• Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Honorary Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Foreign Honorary Member of the Russian Mineralogical Society
• Foreign Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• Founder and Honorary President of the Bulgarian Mineralogical Society
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Honorary citizen of Plovdiv
• at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was named after him.
• The mineral kostovite was named in his honour.
• A genus of cretaceous ammonites was named in his honour.

  Selected publications