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Racing Jaguars
(16 January)
Lecture to be presented by Mr J. Randle, Director, Product Engineering, Jaguar
Cars Ltd at a meeting organised jointly between IProd E and NM Branch NP YMS by
North Eastern AD Centre to be held at the Metropole Hotel, Leeds, commencing 7.15
p.m.
Formula one motor racing
(25 January)
Lecture to be presented by Mr S. Hallam of Lotus Cars at a meeting organised
by Western AD Centre to be held at the Queens Buildings, University of Bristol,
commencing 7 p.m.
C O N V E R S A T I O N
Great Scientists
I. Learn to speak about great scientists. Make use of the
following articles.
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov was born in 1711 in the family of a fisherman in the
northern coastal village of Denisovka not far from Archangelsk. When he was ten
years of age his father began to take him for sea fishing. The dangerous life of a
fisherman taught him to observe the natural phenomena more closely. During the long
winter nights young Lomonosov studied his letters, grammar and arithmetic diligently.
Being the son of a peasant, he was refused admission to the local school. After
some years, through concealing his peasant origin, he gained admission to the
Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy and for five years lived a hand-to-mouth existence on
three kopecks a day. The noblemen's sons studying with him made fun of the twenty-
year-old giant who, in spite of the years and his own poverty, made rapid progress.
After five years came the chance of entering the Academy of Sciences, as there
were not enough noble-born students to fill the quota. His ability and diligence
attracted the attention of the professors and as one of three best students he was sent
abroad. He spent all the time there studying the works of leading European scientists
in chemistry, metallurgy, mining and mathematics. On his return to Russia in 1745 he
was made a professor and was the first Russian scientist to become a member of the
Academy of Sciences.
For versatility Lomonosov has no equal in Russian science. Many of his ideas
and discoveries only won recognition in the nineteenth century. He was the first to
discover the vegetable origin of coal, for instance, and as a poet and scientist he
played a great role in the formation of the Russian literary language, eliminating

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