17 October] 1907 in Moscow – December 25, 1990) was an Earth scientist in the Soviet Union, and a prominent advocate of alternatives to the theories of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading[1] during the period of intense debate on these subjects in the 20th century.
[2] Belousov was head of the Geodynamics Department at the Institute of the Physics of the Earth in Moscow (from 1944).
During the 1960s, he led three expeditions to the East African Rift to study continental structure and the Earth's mantle.
Although his theories were ultimately rejected by the scientific community, Belousov was an important figure in the development of the Earth sciences within the Soviet union following the Second World War.
This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.