Boris Podolsky Boris Podolsky, research professor of theoretical p[hysics at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio died November 28, 1966. podolsky was born in Taganrog, Russia in 1896 and emigrated to the United States in 1913. He obtained an M. A. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California in 1926 and studied under Paul S. Epstein at the California Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in Physics in 1828. Podolsky spent the next few years at various institutes and universities in the United States and abroad, working with men such as Richard Tolman, Vladimir A. Fock, P....