Mikhail Lomonosov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian polymath

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1711

Place of Birth: Lomonosovo, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1765

Profession: astronomer, writer, poet, politician, physicist, mathematician, historian, inventor, mosaicist, artist, geologist, chemist, geographer, painter, university teacher, philosopher, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Mikhail Lomonosov

  • Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; Russian: ?????´? (???á???) ????´?????? ??????´???, IPA: [m??x?'il v?'s?il?j?v??t? l?m?'nos?f] (listen); November 19 [O.S.
  • November 8] 1711 – April 15 [O.S.
  • April 4] 1765) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
  • Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
  • His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others.
  • Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.
  • He summed up his thoughts on Russian and other languages when he said, "...Russian has the “grandeur” of Spanish, the vivacity of French, the strength of German, the gentleness of Italian, and in addition to that, the wealth and brevity of ancient Latin and Greek...".

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