Career
Under a National Research Council Fellowship, Podolsky spent a year at the University of California Berkeley, followed by a year at Leipzig University. In 1930, he returned to Caltech, working with Richard C. Tolman for one year. He then went to the Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute, collaborating with Vladimir Fock, Paul Dirac (who was there on a visit), and Lev Landau. In 1933, he returned to the USA with a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 1935, he took a post as professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cincinnati. In 1961, he moved to the Xavier University, Cincinnati, where he worked until his death in 1966.
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