Volkov spent two years as a radar operator in the [[United States Navy]] in the Pacific. He received a B.S. in science at North Carolina University in 1948 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1950. | Volkov spent two years as a radar operator in the [[United States Navy]] in the Pacific. He received a B.S. in science at North Carolina University in 1948 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1950. |