Did Igor Kurchatov initially educate himself as a Naval Architect?
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Yes
He was a Physician
He was a Pilot
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Igor Kurchatov was initially educated as a Naval Architect. He enrolled in the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute in 1912 to study naval architecture. He graduated in 1916 and went on to work as a naval architect for the Imperial Russian Navy. However, after the Russian Revolution, Kurchatov turned his attention to physics and became one of the pioneers of nuclear energy.
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