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David Bohm : a life dedicated to understanding the quantum world / Olival Freire Junior.

By: Freire Junior, Olival.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Springer biographies: Publisher: Cham : Springer, 2019Description: xi, 250 pages: E 34.99 photos (col. and B&W), ill.; 24 cms.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030227142 (hbk.).Subject(s): Bohm, David, 1917-1992 | Bohm, David, 1917-1992 | Physicists -- Biography | Quantum theory | Physicists | Quantum theoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Biography.DDC classification: 530.092
Contents:
Introduction: Living through Cold War Storms, Attempting to Understand the Quantum.- From Wilke-Barres to a Physics PhD at Berkeley (1917-1945).- Teaching and doing research at Princeton, caught up in the Cold War storms (1947-1951).- The long campaign for the causal interpretation (1952-1960). Brazil, Israel, and the U.K..- From the Causal Interpretation to the Wholeness and Order – The First Stage of the London Years (1960-1979).- The Quest for Compatibility between the Causal Interpretation and the Wholeness Approach (1979-1992).- Epilogue.- The legacy of David Bohm in physics – An essay in scientometry.
List(s) this item appears in: 2021-07-26

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Living through Cold War Storms, Attempting to Understand the Quantum.- From Wilke-Barres to a Physics PhD at Berkeley (1917-1945).- Teaching and doing research at Princeton, caught up in the Cold War storms (1947-1951).- The long campaign for the causal interpretation (1952-1960). Brazil, Israel, and the U.K..- From the Causal Interpretation to the Wholeness and Order – The First Stage of the London Years (1960-1979).- The Quest for Compatibility between the Causal Interpretation and the Wholeness Approach (1979-1992).- Epilogue.- The legacy of David Bohm in physics – An essay in scientometry.

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