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Mikhail Lomonosov - Wikipedia  Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made ... That initial falsehood would nearly get him expelled from the academy a few ... to Moscow several months ahead of schedule, resuming his studies there. ... A year later he was named adjutant to the Russian Academy of Science in...
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Mikhail Lomonosov - New World Encyclopedia  Aug 15, 2014 ... Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (  ) ... He established the first factory outside of Italy to produce mosaics, and was ... The few books accessible to him he almost learned by heart and, seeing that there was no ... allowance granted to him by the Russian Academy of Science,...
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Mikhail Lomonosov and the dawn of Russian science  Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov, 171165. (From the collection ... inheritancea two-mast sailboat named Seagull. ... He thought that ahead of him lay a month-long ... for nearly 50 years, he has reemerged during the past two centuries as a cult figure in Russian science. ... founded in 1724 by a decree of Emperor Peter the.
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov | Russian author and scientist ...  Russian poet, scientist, and grammarian who is often considered the first great ... attached to their privileges and fearing the spread of education and science, ... his humble origin; the sons of nobles jeered at him, and he had scarcely enough .... by Soviet scholars has revealed the full contributions of Lomonosov, who has...
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - biography  Biography Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. ... In 1748 the Academy of Sciences Lomonosov founded the first Russia laboratory. At the initiative of Lomonosov...
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Speaking Of: : Keeping Track of Soviet Names - latimes  Nov 19, 1991 ... THE CITIES Scores of Soviet cities have stripped the Communist ... Gorky -- Nizhny Novgorod The namesake of Maxim Gorky, ... Ordzhonikidze -- Vladikavkaz The city's original name, a statement of Russian imperial pride meaning Ruler ... name after decades of being named after Mikhail Frunze, a famous...
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Andrei Sakharov facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Moscow, 14 December 1989), theoretical physics, thermonuclear design and ... In 1975, he became the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. .... the public domain portended that this semisecret scientist was about to become a public figure of ... Of course, this doesn't apply to its leaders, who are simply blind fanatics,...
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crme de la crme (Page 3) / Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity ...  He is widely credited with first "splitting the atom" in 1917 in a nuclear reaction ..... (1869) of the periodic law and the invention of the periodic table, ... An outstanding teacher, he was professor at the Univ. of St. Petersburg (186890). He directed the bureau of weights and measures from 1893 and served as...
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Uranium's scientific history 1789 - 1939  The bicentenary of the discovery of uranium coincides with the fiftieth anniversary ... out in 1789 by a talented self-educated German chemist, Martin Klaproth. ... He proposed, until a better name was found, to call his element after the last planet ... His fame was crowned by the discovery of a new planet, named Uranus after...
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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  The Russian-American physicist and radio engineer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1889-1982) made important contributions to the development of television,...
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323 Brucia - Wikipedia  Brucia was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography. It was also the first of over 200 asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, a pioneer in that method of finding astronomical objects. Discovered on December 22, 1891, it was named in honour of Catherine ... (6454) 1991 UG1 was a Mars-crossing asteroid until January 2016.
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On the History of Genetics in the Soviet Union: Science and Politics ...  taboo . This aspect can be elucidated by a witness, who has left Soviet Union ... of the organization of hereditary material, this line might read : Mendel ,. Wilson ... Institute of Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, with Vavilov its director . ...... of nature, I .V. Michurin, and his foremost continuator, T.D. Lysenko .
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Mikhail Lomonosov  the Pioneer of Russian Science ...  Three hundreds years ago Russia gave to the world one of the greatest ... to the front row of the universal mankind genius  Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov. ... time word element Lomonosov used the word atom, and instead of corpuscle ... Lomonosov first produced solid-state Mercury and determined its elasticity and...
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The Optimistic Science of Leibniz - The New Atlantis  First, he invented the calculus  independently, most scholars now agree, of its .... librarian, and advisor for the prominent baron who was his patron and friend. .... with the emperor in Vienna and even with Russia's Peter the Great, Leibniz's...
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Best of Russia --- Famous Russians --- Astronauts - TRISTARMEDIA  Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), flew into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok I on 12 April 1961, becoming the first man in space. ... him an international hero; While on board, received a word that he had been promoted to the rank of major. ... Gagarin was chosen to fly aboard Vostok 1 just four days before the launch date.
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Discovery of Radioactivity - Vigyan Prasar  The bones belonged to Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen (1845-1923), a scientist Poincare had .... But he still might have failed to recognizes radioactivity as a phenomenon ..... They named the new element polonium, after Marie's home country. ... Marie was appointed in his place and she became the first woman to teach physics at...
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov - Scientist, Physiologist - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Born on September 14, 1849, in Ryazan, Russia, Ivan Pavlov abandoned his early theological schooling to study science. As the Department of Physiology head at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, his groundbreaking work on the digestive systems of dogs earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904.
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BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Mendeleev's periodic table  In 1869, just five years after John Newlands put forward his law of octaves, a Russian chemist called Dmitri Mendeleev published a periodic table. Mendeleev...
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Moons of Mars - Wikipedia  The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. Both moons were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall and are named after the ... However, the view of most astronomers is that Swift was simply employing a .... Since Phobos orbits Mars faster than the planet itself rotates, tidal forces are slowly .... American Geophysical Union.
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Sergey Brin - Wikipedia  Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Soviet-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. ... His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his ... Science in 1993 with honors in computer science and mathematics, which is...
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Valentina Tereshkova - SheHeroes  Bykovsky and Vostok 5 landed safely a few hours later. Photo: RIA Novosti. After her historic space flight, Valentina Tereshkova received the Order of Lenin and Hero of ... In November 1963, she married fellow cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev,...