The Russian chemist and physicist Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) proposed advanced scientific theories, but the diversity of his activities and interests hindered him from gaining widespread recognition. Mikhail Lomonosov was born on Nov. 8,...

Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov was a figure of great prominence among mid-eighteenth-century Russian writers and holds the reputation as one of the greatest Russian poets of his century. Coming from a geographic and cultural periphery of Russia and from...

1711-1765 Russian polymath and giant of eighteenth-century science. Lomonosov reputedly experimentally demonstrated mass conservation prior to Antoine Lavoisier, proposed a kinetic theory of heat earlier than Count Rumford, developed a wave theory of...

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов) (November 19 [O.S. November 8] 1711 – April 15 [O.S. April 4] 1765) was a Russian scientist, writer and polymath who made important contributions to...

With the cold weather of late, Framingham has seemed as frosty as St. Petersburg in deepest winter. But soon, the weather could be only one of many points that the town has in common with Russia. This month, at the urging of Framingham...

It's doubtful that in the excitement of the summit meetings President Bush paid much notice to what happened here last weekend. But the collapse of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis' political dynasty, dramatized by the events at the state Democratic convention, illustrates the risks Bush...

Two small Russian submarines completed a risky voyage deep below the North Pole Thursday, planting their country's flag in a titanium capsule on the Arctic Ocean floor to symbolically claim what could be vast energy reserves beneath the seabed.The subs dove some 2 1/2 miles...