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A LECTURE on Lomonosov (1711–1765), the first Russian man of science, will be given by Prof. J. D. Bernal at the Ambassadors' Hotel, W.C.I, at 7.30 p.m. t on June 28. This fisherman's son from Archangel, his curiosity aroused by the icebergs and aurora borealis of his native province, ran away to school in Moscow at the age of nineteen. He entered the German-staffed Academy of Sciences set up by Peter the Great, being the first Russian to do so, and the first to lecture in his native tongue instead of in Latin.
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M. V. Lomonosov. Nature 145, 926–927 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145926d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145926d0