Prince Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (Russian: Борис Борисович Голицын, 2 March [O.S.

4 May] 1916) was a prominent Russian Empire physicist who invented the first electromagnetic seismograph in 1906.

In 1911 he was chosen to be the president of the International Seismology Association.

[1] He was a plenary speaker on the International Congress of mathematicians in Cambridge 1912,[2] and in 1916 was elected as member of the Royal Society.

[1] He belonged to the Golitsyn family, one of the leading noble houses of Imperial Russia.