Leonid Brekhovskikh
| Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 May 1917 Strunkino, Russia |
| Died |
15 January 2005 (aged 87) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian, Soviet |
| Fields | Acoustical oceanography |
| Institutions |
Lebedev Physical Institute Shirshov Institute of Oceanology |
| Alma mater |
Perm State University Lebedev Physical Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Igor E. Tamm |
| Known for | Deep sound channel |
Lebedev Physical Institute
Andreev Acoustics Institute
Moscow State University
Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh (6 May 1917 – 15 January 2005; Russian: Леони́д Макси́мович Бреховски́х) was a Russian/Soviet scientist known for his work in acoustical and physical oceanography.
Brekhovskikh was born to 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 of sciences degree (PhD) 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.
During 1946, his research in the Sea of Japan led him to the discovery of the deep sound channel, a concept which would eventually lead to the foundation of modern acoustical oceanography. This was discovered independently by Maurice Ewing and Lamar Worzel in the US almost at the same time. In 1953, Brekhovskikh left FIAN and founded the Andreev Acoustics Institute in Moscow, which he directed until 1961 (he remained a department head there until his leaving, in 1980). At the Acoustics Institute, he participated in the construction and design of two acoustical research ships, the Sergey Vavilov and the Pyotr Lebedev, which participated in the Polygon experiment along with four other ships. These ships observed the mesocale eddies for the first time, confirming the predictions made by Henry Stommel in the mid 1960s.
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