Leonid Brekhovskikh

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh (6 May 1917 - 15 January 2005) was a Russian/Soviet scientist known for his work in acoustical and physical oceanography. Brekhovskikh was born from a peasant family in Strunkino, a small village in Vologda Governorate (now Arkhangelsk Oblast), Russia. He graduated from Perm State University in 1939, from which he received his university degree, and studied under Igor E. Tamm at the Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN). There, he received his candidate 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, upon which he received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from FIAN in 1947.