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Boris Podolsky

1896 - 1966

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Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky (Russian: Бори́с Я́ковлевич Подо́льский; June 29, 1896 – November 28, 1966) was a Russian-American physicist of Jewish descent, noted for his work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Podolsky is the 433rd most popular physicist (up from 452nd in 2019), the 790th most popular biography from Russia (up from 921st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Boris Podolsky ranks 433 out of 851. Before him are Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, Raoul Pictet, Alan Guth, and Homi J. Bhabha. After him are Walther Ritz, William Stanley Jr., Walther Meissner, Evgeny Lifshitz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and Anatoli Bugorski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Boris Podolsky ranks 100. Before him are Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Carl Zuckmayer, Faina Ranevskaya, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pierre Jeanneret, and Carl Ludwig Siegel. After him are William A. Wellman, Stanisława Leszczyńska, Henry Allingham, Besse Cooper, Ludwik Fleck, and Tadj ol-Molouk. Among people deceased in 1966, Boris Podolsky ranks 82. Before him are Wilhelm Röpke, Emil Brunner, Väinö Tanner, Bud Powell, Robert Rossen, and Homi J. Bhabha. After him are Camilo Torres Restrepo, Wieland Wagner, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Georges Theunis, Albert W. Hull, and Alfred Neuland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Podolsky ranks 790 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Speransky (1772), Ivan Goremykin (1839), Anna Vyrubova (1884), Eduard Streltsov (1937), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Viktor Gorbatko (1934). After him are Mikhail Pletnev (1957), Maria Bochkareva (1889), Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849), Olga Rozanova (1886), Pavel Belyayev (1925), and Anatoly Berezovoy (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Boris Podolsky ranks 20. Before him are Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Vladimir Fock (1898), and Georgy Flyorov (1913). After him are Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Emil Wiechert (1861), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), and George Zweig (1937).

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