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.