Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov

• November 19 1711 April 15 1765

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What was he?

• singer
• scientist
• teacher
• polymath
• sailor
• artist
• dancer
• postman
• chemist
• mineralogist
• soldier

• musician
• composer
• writer
• philologist
• physicist
• builder
• poet
• historian
• fisherman
• mathematician
• tailor

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Match the words and their definitions

• 1) polymath a) a person who writes books,
  articles
• 2) scientist b) a person who writes or studies
  history
• 3) writer c) a person of great and varied
  learning
• 4) chemist d) a person who writes poetry
• 5) physicist e) a person studying, trained in,
  or engaged in chemistry
• 6) mineralogist f) a person who studies
  linguistics
• 7) historian g) a person who studies or
  practises any of the sciences or who uses
  scientific methods
• 8) philologist h) a scientist trained in
  mineralogy
• 9) poet i) a person versed in or studying
  physics

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Spheres of interests

• He was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
• His spheres of science - natural science,
  chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art,
  philology, optical devices.
• Lomonosov was also a poet, who created the basis
  of the modern Russian literary language.

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The place of birth

• the village of Denisovka,
• the Arkhangelsk Governorate,
• the Far North of Russia.

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Lomonosovs passion

• Learning was young Lomonosov's passion.
• He had been taught to read as a boy by Ivan
  Shubny.
• He spent every spare moment with his books.
• For many years the only books he had access to
  were religious texts.

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Early life

• In 1730 Lomonosov joined a caravan traveling to
  Moscow.
• After arriving he obtained admission into the
  Slavic Greek Latin Academy.

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• After three years in Moscow he was sent to Kiev
  to study for one year at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
  He quickly became dissatisfied with the education
  and returned to Moscow.
• He completed a twelve-year study course in only
  five years, graduating at the top of his class.
  In 1736, Lomonosov was awarded a scholarship to
  Saint Petersburg State University.
• He plunged into his studies and was rewarded with
  a two-year grant to study abroad at the
  University of Marburg, in Germany.

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• Lomonosov quickly mastered the German language,
  philosophy, seriously studied chemistry and even
  began writing poetry. He also developed an
  interest in German literature.
• During his residence in Germany he fell in love
  with Catharinas daughter Elisabeth Christine
  Zilch. They were married in June 1740.

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• Lomonosov returned to Russia in 1741.
• He was named adjutant to the Russian Academy of
  Science in the physics department.
• In 1743 Lomonosov was accused, arrested, and held
  under house arrest for eight months.
• He was released and pardoned in January 1744.

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• In 1745 Lomonosov was made a full member of the
  Academy and named professor of chemistry.
• He established the Academy's first chemistry
  laboratory.
• In 1755 Lomonosov joined his patron Count Ivan
  Shuvalov in founding the Moscow State University.

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• He made a lot of discoveries in
• Physics,
• Astronomy,
• Chemistry,
• Geography,
• Mosaicism,
• poetry.

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• In 1761 Lomonosov was elected a foreign member of
  the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• In 1764 he was appointed to the position of
  secretary of state.
• Most of his accomplishments were unknown outside
  Russia until long after his death.

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Moscow State University

• Moscow State University was renamed M. V.
  Lomonosov Moscow State University in his honor
  in 1940.

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