Boris Podolsky
| Boris Podolsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky 29 June 1896 Taganrog, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died |
28 November 1966 (aged 70) Cincinnati, USA |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions |
University of Cincinnati Leipzig University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute Caltech Institute for Advanced Study Xavier University, Cincinnati Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light |
| Alma mater |
Caltech University of Southern California |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Sophus Epstein |
| Doctoral students | Philip Schwed |
| Known for | EPR paradox |
| Influences | Albert Einstein |
Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky (Russian: Бори́с Я́ковлевич Подо́льский; 29 June 1896 – 28 November 1966) was an American physicist of Russian Jewish descent, noted on his work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
In 1896, Boris Podolsky was born into a poor Jewish family in Taganrog, in the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire, and he moved to the United States in 1913. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1918, he served in the US Army and then worked at the Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light. In 1926, he obtained an MS in Mathematics from the University of Southern California. In 1928, he received a PhD in Theoretical Physics (under Paul Sophus Epstein) from Caltech.
Under a National Research Council Fellowship, Podolsky spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a year at Leipzig University. In 1930, he returned to Caltech, working with Richard C. Tolman for one year. He then went to the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology (Kharkiv, USSR), collaborating with Vladimir Fock, Paul Dirac (who was there on a visit), and Lev Landau. In 1933, he returned to the USA with a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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