Word: lomonsov
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. 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...