Mihhailo Lomonosov – this great man would be 310; he was genius, and he developed not one field of science, but many at the same time. A person of various talents and very goal-oriented, he would succeed in everything he did, and scientists all over the world use many of his discoveries. Few know that this talented man was also a poet. This is a great example of “universal personality”:
- Founder of scientific sea going and physical chemistry.
- Set foundation of the science of glass.
- Astronomer – discovered that Venus had atmosphere.
- Instrument maker, geographer, steel worker, geologist.
- He was also poet, artist, philologist, genealogist, historian.
- Developed the concept of the Moscow University, that later got his name.
- Contributed a lot to the development of rhetoric.
- Lomonosov spoke 12 languages fluently and new seven more to a lesser degree.
- This scientist invented and introduced into the Russian language the notion of the abbreviation.
- Lomonosov, as far as the modern-day scientists say, determined rather accurately the age of our planet.
- It was Mikhail Lomonosov, who invented a night-vision device, though under the circumstances it remained unnoticed and was shown to the public only one and a half-century later.
- During his five-year stay in Europe Lomonosov translated poems from German and other foreign languages into Russian.
- He developed a prototype helicopter.
- Lomonosov also developed more than ten optical instruments that had no analogues then.
- He was a talented artist and made beautiful mosaics.