Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)

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 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."

Fiction cross-reference

• Nathan Rosen and The Eel Discuss a Molecule Where None of the Electrons Have a Definite Quantum Number, But the Pair of Electrons has a Pure State

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Paul Dirac (nonfiction)
• Albert Einstein (nonfiction)
• EPR paradox (nonfiction)
• Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)

External links:

• Boris Podolsky @ Wikipedia