Lomonosov Chemist Biography

Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov-Biography Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov was born on November 8 in the village of Mishaninsky Kurostrovsky volost of the Dvinsky district of the Arkhangelsk province now the village of Lomonosovo, Kholmogorsky district, in the family of a peasant-Pomor Vasily Lomonosov, who was engaged in maritime fishing. The letter of Michael taught the clerk of the local Dmitrov church.

Having received a passport in the Kholmogorsk governor in the Kholmogorsk Office, Summer Mikhail went with a fish convoy from Kholmogor to Moscow. The journey took three weeks. Already January, Lomonosov, leaving himself as a nobleman, entered the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. In the year, Mikhail Lomonosov, among the twelve best students, went to St. Petersburg "to determine the Academy of Sciences." Lomonosov’s stay at the Academy of Sciences was short -lived - already in September of the year with a group of the most talented students he was sent to study mining to Germany in Marburg Hessen.

At first, Mikhail studied at the University of Marburg under the leadership of Professor Christian von Volf, then for about a year in Freiberg with Professor Johann Friedrich Genkel, a well -known specialist in mining. In May, M. Lomonosov married the church of the Reformed community of Marburg with Elizabeth-Christina Tsilch, whose mother rented a room. He was a single -lover: having married in his student years, he kept loyalty to his wife all his life.

The couple had three children, but only the daughter Elena, who was born in the year, survived. As a result of a quarrel with I. Genkel in the year, Lomonosov arbitrarily interrupted his studies and, temporarily leaving his wife in Marburg, went home. Upon his return, M. Lomonosov worked on the compilation of a mineralogical catalog under the leadership of Botanik I. he hoped that according to the rules, he would be produced in extraordinary professors, but this did not happen.

Only in January, after the petition submitted to Empress Elizabeth, Lomonosov received the title of adjunct and became a member of the Academic Assembly. Lomonosov became the first Russian academician in the field of natural science. Having become a professor, Lomonosov began to give public lectures in physics and achieved permission to give them in Russian - before that, lectures were given only in Latin.

In the year, Lomonosov initiated the creation of a Russian University in Moscow. The idea was realized only after 10 years: in the opening of Moscow University, training at three faculties - philosophical, legal and medical - was mainly conducted in Russian and Russian professors. At the university there was a gymnasium in which children of various classes were taken.

Later, he defended the rights of the lower Russian estate to education at the gymnasium and the university. In March, Lomonosov received the rank of college adviser, which gave him the right to hereditary nobility. In the year, at the solemn meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Mikhail Vasilievich pronounced “the word of the commendable Empress Elizabeth Petrovna”, after which he began to use great attention at the court and became close to the favorite of Elizabeth I.

It was he who helped Lomonosov in the year to arrange a mosaic factory. In the year, M. Lomonosov became an adviser to the academic office. In the same year, the scientist published his main work on philology - “Russian grammar”. In this work, Lomonosov first divided the Russian and Church Slavonic languages, outlined the laws and forms of the Russian language, classified dialects.

The jurisdiction of Lomonosov was an academic assembly, university, gymnasium and geographical department. In the year, Mikhail Lomonosov became a member of the Russian Academy of Arts, at the end of his life - an honorary member of the Stockholm and Bologna Academies of Sciences. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov died on April 4 of the year in a year of life from inflammation of the lungs, was buried in the Lazarevsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Lomonosov considered himself primarily a chemist, but he made the largest number of discoveries at the junction of different sciences, as well as in the field of physics. He was the first to formulate laws that explain the nature of basic physical and chemical interactions, and became the founder of physical chemistry. Lomonosov developed the theory of light and optics, made a number of discoveries in geophysics and astronomy - for example, he discovered and substantiated the presence of Venus of his own atmosphere.

He substantiated the origin of many ores, minerals, rocks and soils. He owns the first detailed study of the physicochemical properties of blacksmith.

Lomonosov also owns discoveries in the field of geography: he created a map of the polar countries of the Northern Hemisphere, substantiated the existence of Antarctic in the southern hemisphere, also developed navigation and cartographic devices. Among the inventions of Mikhail Vasilyevich are optical, meteorological, navigation devices, electricity meters and even a helicopter model.

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