Nikolai Nikolayevich Andreyev (28 July 1880 – 31 December 1970) was a physicist who specialized in the study of music and acoustics. The

Andreyev Acoustics Institute The N. N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute, (also the Andreyev Acoustics Institute or simply the Acoustics Institute) is a Russian research facility dedicated to the study of acoustics. It was established in 1953 in Moscow, as part of the Lebedev Physic ...

and a research vessel ''Akademik Nikolai Andreyev'' are named after him. Andreyev was born to a government official, Nikolai Fedorovich and Alexandra Nikitichna Konvisarova. After the death of his parents in a fire, he was brought up by relatives in Moscow. He went to the classical gymnasium and after graduating in 1892, joined the military school where he studied mathematics and European languages, apart from excelling in music. He joined the Higher Technical Institute in 1898 but was expelled for taking part in student agitations. He was influenced by

Nikolai Bugaev Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Буга́ев; September 14, 1837 – June 11, 1903) was a prominent Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely. Early life and education Bugaev was born in Geor ...

and in 1903 he went to study at the

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and then moved to Basel to study under

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. He worked on optics and examined approaches to identification of active components using polarization measurements. After receiving his doctorate he worked in Moscow in the laboratory of

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. During World War I he was involved in developing methods for locating guns using sounds. From 1918 he was professor of physics at Omsk and in 1920 he moved to Moscow to study acoustics with

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. He also studied

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, microphones, and the production of sounds by animals. He received a

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

in 1945 and 1953 and was decorated

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

in 1970.

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