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  Mikhail Lomonosov at AllExperts
Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which was afterwards changed to Lomonosovo in honor of the poet), situated on an island not far from Kholmogory, in the Far North of Russia.
Lomonosov studied with Wolff and became one of his personal students; both philosophically and as a science administrator (also a forte of Wolff), this connection would be most influential for the rest of his life.
Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury, and to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in Petersburg.
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  Mikhail Lomonosov - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov studied with Wolff and became one of his personal students; both philosophically and as a science administrator (also a forte of Wolff), this connection would be most influential for the rest of his life.
In 1764 Lomonosov was appointed to the position of a secretary of state.
Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury, and to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761.
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 Mikhail Lomonosov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which was afterwards changed to Lomonosovo in honour of the poet),situated on an island not far from Kholmogory, in the government of Arkhangelsk.
In 1764 Lomonosov was appointed to the position of asecretary of state.
Lomonosov was the first person torecord the freezing of mercury, and to observe the atmosphere of Venus during a solar transit.
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 Great gold medal in the name of M.V.Lomonosov
The M.V. Lomonosov’s Gold Medal was instituted by the enactment No. 851 of the USSR Cabinet Council of June 23, 1956.
Description of the medal was approved by the resolution No. 640 of the USSR Academy of Sciences Presidium of October 3, 1958.
Regulation on the medal was approved by the resolution No. 909 of the USSR Academy of Sciences Presidium of November 24, 1967.
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 Lomonosov Gold Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist.
The Lomonosov Gold Medal should not be confused with the Lomonosov Award, introduced in 1866.
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 Mikhail Lomonosov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The most grandiose of Lomonosov's mosaics depicts the [[Battle of Poltava.]] During his Marburg time, he also began to write poetry, imitating German authors, among whom he is said to have especially admired Gunther.
During his residence in Germany, Lomonosov married a native of that country, and found it difficult to maintain his increasing family on the scanty allowance granted to him by the St. Petersburg Academy which, moreover, was irregularly sent.
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 Mikhail Lomonosov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov was born in the village of (the name of which was afterwards changed Lomonosovo in honour of the poet) situated an island not far from Kholmogory in the government of Arkhangelsk.
During his residence in Lomonosov married a native of that country found it difficult to maintain his increasing on the scanty allowance granted to him the St.
Lomonosov was the first person to the freezing of mercury and to observe the atmosphere of Venus during a transit of Venus.
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 Mikhail Lomonosov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which was afterwards changed to Lomonosovo in honor of the poet), situated on an island not far from (Click link for more info and facts about Kholmogory) Kholmogory, in the Far North of Russia.
As a scientist Lomonosov rejected the (A hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning) phlogiston theory of matter commonly accepted at the time, and anticipated the ((physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motion) kinetic theory of gases.
Lomonosov published his own (A record or narrative description of past events) history of Russia in 1760.
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 Encyclopedia: Mikhail Lomonosov
Lomonosovs portrait was painted by Leontiy Miropolsky in 1787.
Poltava battle, fragment of mosaic, by Mikhail Lomonosov File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
The Battle of Poltava (or Pultowa) was a battle between the armies of Peter I of Russia and Charles XII of Sweden on 28 June (new style 8 July) 1709, the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War.
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 Hannes Alfvén   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In 1988, Alfvén was awarded by the American Geophysical Union the Bowie medal, for his work on comets and plasmas in the solar system.
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1967)
Lomonosov Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1971)
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 medal
A Medal is a decoration awarded for service to a country, usually military service.
Traditionally, a medal is a metal shape (usuall a disk) suspended by a strip of ribbon or fabric.
Medals are traditionally worn on the left side of one's shirt or jacket, normally on formal white tie occasions.
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 List of prizes, medals, and awards - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Alexander Agassiz Medal -- a medal and a prize of $15,000 awarded every three years for original contribution in the science of oceanography by the US National Academy of Sciences
"The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
National Medal of Science -- given by the President of the United States on recommendation of the National Science Foundation to scientists and engineers in behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
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 mikhail lomonosov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which was afterwards changed to Lomonosovo in honour of the poet), situated on an island not far from Kholmogory, in the government of Arkhangelsk.
Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury, and to observe the atmosphere of Venus during a transit of Venus.
Eugene Benyaminovich Beshenkovsky (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) has detected that Lomonosov's private library (c.
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 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 :: Science Overview :: Education & Science :: Russia-InfoCentre
Kothenius Gold Medal of the German Academy of Naturalists "Leopoldina", 1959
Lomonosov Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1959
Medal for Merits in Science and to Mankind of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1964
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 Sunbirds.com: Mikhail Lomonosov - Russian Lacquer item   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov was born November 19, 1711, in Denisovka (now Lomonosov), near Arkhangelsk, and educated at the University of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, in Saint Petersburg.
Interested in furthering Russian education, Lomonosov helped to found the Moscow State University in 1755, and in the same year wrote a grammar that reformed the Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with the vulgar tongue.
Shatalina Roza Serafimovna Shatalina Roza Serafimovna was born in 1936 in Minsk.
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 Renzo Piano - Biography & Achievements
In 1960 Professor Natta received a gold medal from the city of Milan.
In 1961 he received a medal from the President of the Italian Republic (an honour reserved for those who gain merit in the fields of school, culture and art).
In the same year he also received the Perrin medal from the French Chemical Physical Society, the Lavoisier medal from the Chemical Society of France and the Perkin gold medal of the English Society of Dyers and Colourists.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: List_of_prizes,_medals,_and_awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Alexander Agassiz Medal -- a medal and a prize of $15,000 awarded every three years for original contribution in the science of oceanography by the US National Academy of Sciences
Lomonosov Gold Medal -- Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Russian Academy of Sciences)
National Medal of Science -- given by the President of the United States on recommendation of the National Science Foundation to scientists and engineers in behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
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 Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which was afterwards changed to Lomonosovo in honor of the poet), situated on an island not far from Kholmogory, in the government of Arkhangelsk.
bg:Михаил Ломоносов de:Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow eo:Miĥail LOMONOSOV ru:Ломоносов, Михаил Васильевич zh-cn:米哈伊尔·瓦西里耶维奇·罗蒙诺索夫
This page was last modified 20:59, 25 Aug 2004.
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 Lomonosov Gold Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Lomonosov Gold Medal named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Two medals are awarded annually: to a Russian and one to a scientist.
This book is not a story of the making of gold coins, but rather it is a more specific catalog of the collection housed in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian.
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 List of prizes, medals, and awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bruce Medal - outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
"The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
Lomonosov Gold Medal - Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Russian Academy of Sciences)
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 GINZBURG, Vitaly Lazerevich
Ginzburg's other honors include many from the former Soviet Union, such as the State Prize (1953), the Lenin Prize (1966), and the Lomonosov Big Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Science (1995).
Outside his home country, he has been elected a foreign member of nine Academies of Sciences, including the American Academy of Sciences in 1981.
He was awarded the UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal in 1998.
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 Federal gold medal - Gold Medal for Wolf Dietrich Tesar | FAI Rotorcraft Commission - CIG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved The Royal Gold Medal presentation 2005 is in association with Rolls-Royce
The catalyst for federal commitment to winning gold medals was the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Mary Kate Hart was one of Fort Detrick's Gold Medal winners at the brought home gold, silver and bronze medals from the Baltimore Federal Executive
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 Solid Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lomonosov Gold Medal The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
The most-active April gold contract settled 60 cents lower at $424.80 per ounce.
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 Lomonosov porcelain - the porcelain of Russian Czars
The items produced at the Factory won in 1925 the Gold Medal at the Paris World Exhibition and some individual artists were awarded gold and silver medals for their works.
In 1958 at the International Exhibition in Brussels the Factory's produce won the Gold Medal, and several of the Factory's painters were awarded gold and silver medals.
Lomonosov Factory is a permanent participant of international exhibitions and fairs.
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 Lomonosov - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lomonosov
After Peter's death, Menshikov was exiled and the estate passed to the imperial Russian family.
Catherine (II) the Great added further buildings at Lomonosov, including a lavish Chinese Palace.
After World War II, Oranienbaum was renamed in honour of the 18th-century poet, astronomer, and chemist Mikhail Lomonosov.
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 Mikhail Lavrentyev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He night when he went away and left him"; and Columbus could not think "from towards him on that voyage." Martin had done a good trade and had got a turn the conversation when it was becoming unpleasant to himself.
He Yamaye,--[Jamaica]-- where pieces of gold were taken from the mines as was inhabited only by women.
The unpleasantness was passed over as soon as possible, although the practically at the mercy of the Pinzon brothers and their following from and water, and continued his voyage on Tuesday, January 8th.
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 Nickolai Gurgeiff - Lomonosov Porcelain
The decoration was modeled on sketches made after engraving townscapes of Moscow and Petersburg, views of suburbs, the martial scenes and scenes from the life of the capital.
The service consisted of 4500 items and the several kilograms of gold were used for decoration.
Gold and silver medals were also awarded to Shchekotikhina, Kobyletskaya, Wilde, Suyetin, Chekhonin, Matveyev, Danko, Ivanov and Kuznetsov.
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 Pyotr Kapitsa - Biography
Kothenius Gold Medal of the German Academy of Naturalists "Leopoldina", 1959
Lomonosov Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1959
Medal for Merits in Science and to Mankind of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1964
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 Mikhail Lomonosov - TheBestLinks.com - April 4, April 15, Chemistry, Education, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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