Lomonosov
is the first Russian member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of science and also
Russia's most accomplished polymath. He came from a poor family, lived with his
father and wicked step-mother. He left his hometown with his to northern Russia
and then he persuades the captain of one of the ship to let him ride along to
Moscow. I think in my opinion leaving your family behind and go to another the
city is very hard if you do not have enough money to survive but managing to. I
believe he was really brave to refuse to go back with his father when found
him. He continued his studies his studies and also Lomonsov was transferred to
top 12 students to continue his education on Saint Petersbutg Academy of
science it was not so long till he was noticed by the Academy to send him to Germany
to study with christian Wolff for three years, when he returned to Russia he
became professor of Physic in the Academy of Science. He was also have works in
literature and also became the first Russian anthologies (a published collection of poems or other pieces
of writing) of world of literature. I think Lomonsov was really
good student and also a man that achieved many things in his life even with the
obstetrical that were in his way. In the year 1765 he caught a cold, fell ill
.pneumonia and died.
Achievement:
- He regarded heat as a form of motion;
- He suggested the wave theory of light;
- He contributed to the formulation of the kinetic theory of gases
- In 1748, Lomonosov created a mechanical explanation of gravitation;
- Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of Mercury;
- He was also the first to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761
- In 1755, he reformed the Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with the vernacular.
Major works:Ode on the Taking of Khotin (1739), Rhetoric (1748), Letter about on the usefullness of glass (1752), Russian grammar" (1755), Russian language" (1757), "Reflexion on the solidity and fluidity of bodies", 1760). History of Russia (1766), Conversation with Anakreon" (1759 - 61), "The Hymn to Beard" (1757).
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