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 | | Leonid Mandelshtam was one of the 20th century physicists whose monumental input into the science was greatly under estimated in terms of international public recognition. |
 | | Leonid Mandelshtam was borne in Mogilev, Belarus, into a well-educated Jewish family on May 5 (18), 1879 - the same year as Albert Einstein. |
 | | Soon after Leonid was born, the family of Isaak Mandelshtam moved to Odessa, where in 1897 Leonid graduated from Gymnasia (classical high school) and enrolled in the Physics and Math Department of Novorossiysk University (Odessa). |
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