What was Igor Kurchatov’s original professional training?
Physicist
Naval Architect
Mathematician
Chemist
Answer
Igor Kurchatov was a Russian physicist and the founder of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Before he became a physicist, he studied naval architecture at St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. He then worked as a naval architect in the Soviet Navy.
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