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| | The Brahmins of Redland - TIME |
 | | As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer of the language, and "father of the new Russian literature"Russian science has flourished even under the most stifling of dictatorships. |
 | | "It is remarkable how few people realize that the Russian scientific tradition goes back so far," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp. "In some fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. |
 | | Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. |
| www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,893941-3,00.html (700 words) |
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