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Stop this historic science site in St Petersburg from being sold

16 Sep 2024 Robert P Crease

We should not let the site of a lab in St Petersburg that spearheaded materials science more than 250 years ago be sold to developers, warns Robert P Crease

1:10 scale model of Lomonosov’s laboratory
Where it all began Located in St Petersburg, Mikhail Lomonosov’s laboratory is shown here as a 1:10 scale model containing 480 replicas and tools, exactly as described in a 1757 list of its equipment. (Model created by R I Kaplan-Ingel in 1948; image courtesy: Museum of M V Lomonosov, St Petersburg)
In the middle of one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in St Petersburg, Russia, is a vacant and

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