Boris Podolsky
Boris Podolsky | |
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Бори́с Подо́льский | |
Born | Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky June 29, 1896 Taganrog, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire |
Died | November 28, 1966 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 70)
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Known for | EPR paradox |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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Doctoral advisor | Paul Sophus Epstein |
Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky (Russian: Бори́с Я́ковлевич Подо́льский; June 29, 1896 – November 28, 1966) was a Russian-American
Education
In 1896, Boris Podolsky was born into a poor Jewish family in
Career
Under a National Research Council Fellowship, Podolsky spent a year at the
In a letter dated November 10, 1933, to Abraham Flexner, founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Einstein described Podolsky as "one of the most brilliant of the younger men who has worked and published with [Paul] Dirac." In 1935 Einstein and others at the Institute wrote letters of recommendation for Podolsky, addressed to Louis T. More, Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati, in which Einstein wrote, "I am happy to be able to tell you that I estimate Podolsky's abilities very highly.. he is an independent investigator of unquestionable talent."[2] In 1935, Podolsky took a post as professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cincinnati. At the University of Cincinnati he was MS adviser to Chihiro Kikuchi,[3] and PhD adviser to Herman Branson[4] and Alex Green.[5] In 1961, he moved to Xavier University, Cincinnati, where he worked until his death in 1966.
Work
Working with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, Podolsky conceived the
In 1933, Podolsky and Lev Landau had the idea to write a textbook on electromagnetism beginning with special relativity and emphasizing theoretical postulates rather than experimental laws. This project did not come to fruition due to Podolsky's return to the United States, where he had immigrated in 1913. However, in the hands of Lev Landau and E. Lifshitz, the outline they produced became The Classical Theory of Fields (1951).[6] On the same basis, Podolsky and K. Kunz produced Fundamentals of Electrodynamics, Marcel Dekker Press (1969), to which Podolsky's son, Robert, contributed most of the questions at the end of each chapter.
Possible contact with Soviet spies during World War II
A 2009 book by
In popular culture
Podolsky is played by the actor Gene Saks in the 1994 Hollywood film I.Q.
See also
References
- PMID 17744604.
- ^ The Advent and Fallout of EPR, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall 2013
- ^ "Memoir | Faculty History Project". www.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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- ISSN 1945-0699.
- ^ Lev Davidovich Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, The Classical Theory of Fields (Pergamon Press Ltd, 1951).
- ^ Explanation of scientific separation reaction. National Security Agency. June 22, 1943.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Meeting with KVANT in Washington. National Security Agency. June 21, 1943.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Archive, Wilson Center Digital. "Wilson Center Digital Archive". digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ^ John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Boston: Yale University Press, 2009).
- ^ Archive, Wilson Center Digital. "Wilson Center Digital Archive". digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
Other sources
Primary source materials
- Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 1962. University Archives, Xavier University.
- Niels Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Supplement, 1910–1962. Niels Bohr Archive.