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3 unusual facts about Boris Podolsky


Boris Podolsky

In 1935, he took a post as professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cincinnati.

A 2009 book by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, outs Podolsky as a spy.

In 1961, he moved to the Xavier University, Cincinnati, where he worked until his death in 1966.


Bell state

Hence, followed Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen in 1935 in their famous "EPR paper", there is something missing in the description of the qubit pair given above—namely this "agreement", called more formally a hidden variable.

Venona project

According to Alexander Vassiliev's notes from KGB archive "Quantum" was Boris Podolsky, "Pers" — Russell W. McNutt, an engineer from the uranium processing plant in Oak Ridge.


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