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Mikhail Lomonosov

1711 - 1765

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; Russian: Михаил Васильевич Ломоносов, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ləmɐˈnosəf] ; 19 November [O.S. 8 November] 1711 – 15 April [O.S. 4 April] 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. The founder of modern geology, Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Lomonosov is the 105th most popular physicist (down from 77th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Russia (up from 110th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Physicist.

Mikhail Lomonosov is most famous for his contributions to the field of chemistry. He was the first to discover that air is composed of two different gases, oxygen and nitrogen.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 105 out of 851. Before him are William Henry Bragg, Eugene Wigner, Donald A. Glaser, Aage Bohr, Thomas Young, and Peter Debye. After him are Georges Lemaître, Hannes Alfvén, Dennis Gabor, Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Peter Higgs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 3. Before him are David Hume, and Qianlong Emperor. After him are Roger Joseph Boscovich, Laura Bassi, William IV, Prince of Orange, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Barbara of Portugal, Ablai Khan, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1765, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 3. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Louis, Dauphin of France. After him are Alexis Clairaut, Philip, Duke of Parma, Muhammad bin Saud, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 100 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Mikhail Kalinin (1875), Ivan Konev (1897), Ivan III of Russia (1440), Michael of Russia (1596), and Alexander Suvorov (1730). After him are Lev Kamenev (1883), Alexander Alekhine (1892), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), and Nikolai Yezhov (1895).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 4. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Wilhelm Wien (1864), and Andrei Sakharov (1921). After him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Nikolay Basov (1922).

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