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Leonid Brekhovskikh

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According to Wikipedia, Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh was a Soviet and Russian scientist known for his work in acoustical and physical oceanography. Early life and education Brekhovskikh was born to a peasant family in Strunkino, a small village in Vologda Governorate , Russia. He graduated from Perm State University in 1939, from which he received his university degree, and studied under Igor Tamm at the Lebedev Physical Institute . There, he received his Candidate of Sciences degree in Physics in 1941 for his thesis on X-ray crystallography. After his PhD, he joined FIAN's acoustical laboratories and worked on a naval defence project to develop protection against acoustically triggered mines. He later developed a theory of the propagation of acoustical waves in layered media, for which he received his DSc in Physics and Mathematics from FIAN in 1947.

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