Lomonosov was born on the 19th of November in 1711 near Kholmogory in the Far North in Russia (Archangeiskaya region). Yes, he was. He pretended that he was a son of a nobleman to enter the Academy in Moscow. Lomonosov became the first Russian professor of chemistry inthe Academy in Moscow in 1745. Lomonosov was also made a member of the Swedish Academy of Science in 1760. Lomonosov died at the age of 54. Yes, he was.