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Anatole Boris Volkov was a Russian-American physicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a pioneer in the field of nuclear physics and was a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb. He was born in San Francisco, California, to Russian immigrants. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1945. He then went on to earn his master's degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1947. Volkov was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1951 to 1988. During his tenure, he was a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb and was involved in the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. Volkov was married to his wife, Vera, for over 50 years. He had two children, a son and a daughter. He died on April 15, 2020, at the age of 95.

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Occupation physicist
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October 1924
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace San Francisco, California, U.S.
Date of death (2000-11-28) Lakeland, Florida, U.S.
Died Place Lakeland, Florida, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2000

He died of cancer on November 28, 2000, aged 76, in Lakeland, Florida.

1948

Volkov earned a B.S. in science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1948 and M.Sc/Ph.D degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1953. His Ph.D. thesis, titled Magnetic interactions on the basis of a modified shell model of complex nuclei, was written under the direction of Robert G. Sachs. Afterwards, he moved to Israel and did research at the Technion in Haifa, and at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. From there he moved to Copenhagen in 1963 and worked at the Niels Bohr Institute. In 1964 he moved to Canada and taught at McMaster University until his retirement in 1989.

1924

Anatole Boris Volkov (October 29, 1924 – November 28, 2000) was an American physicist, allegedly serving as a courier for the Silvermaster spy ring between Washington, D.C., and New York City. Volkov taught both abroad and in America, retiring in the United States 1989. Though Volkov's name appears in the FBI's files, he was never convicted of any espionage by the U.S. government.

Volkov was born on October 29, 1924, in San Francisco, California. After her divorce, his mother married Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, head of the Silvermaster group who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. Volkov spent two years as a radar operator in the United States Navy in the Pacific.

1892

He was related to Count Sergei Witte, who was Czar Nicholas II's Finance Minister of Russia from 1892 to 1903. His mother, Elena Witte, was a baroness. In 1923 the Wittes emigrated to San Francisco, California. (There is no known link between Volkov and "Pop Folkoff" or Volkov or Isaac Folkoff, another communist based in San Francisco.)