Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born on November 19 1711, in Lomonosov, near Arkhangel’sk and educated at the university of the imperial Academy of

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born on November 19 1711, in Lomonosov, near Arkhangel’sk and educated at the university of the imperial Academy of sciences, in Saint Petersburg. He rejected the phlogiston theory of matter commonly accepted at the time and anticipated the kinetic theory of gases. He regarded heat as a form of motion, suggested the wave theory of light and stated the idea of conservation of matter. Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury, and to observe the atmosphere of Venus during a solar transit.