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Mikhail Lomonosov

1711 - 1765

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; Russian: Михаил Васильевич Ломоносов; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Lomonosov has received more than 872,488 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Lomonosov is the 77th most popular physicist (down from 61st in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Russia (down from 99th 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 77 out of 851. Before him are Carl David Anderson, Georges Lemaître, James Chadwick, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Lawrence, and Louis de Broglie. After him are Manne Siegbahn, C. F. Powell, Charles Glover Barkla, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, and John Bardeen.

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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, Barbara of Portugal, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Ablai Khan, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. 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 Muhammad bin Saud, Philip, Duke of Parma, Alexis Clairaut, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 110 out of 3,761. Before him are Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), Tokhtamysh (1342), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Vladimir Komarov (1927), and Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797). After him are Boris Spassky (1937), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Alexander Kolchak (1874), Olga of Kiev (890), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Mikhail Lomonosov ranks 4. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Andrei Sakharov (1921), and Wilhelm Wien (1864). After him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894).

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