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Title
Bryce DeWitt letter to John Wheeler 20-April-1967
Creator
DeWitt, Bryce S.
Date Created and/or Issued
1967-04-20
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information
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This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description
Scope/Content: In 1967, Bryce DeWitt published a three part essay, called "Quantum Theory of Gravitation." He sent a preprint of the first part to Wheeler for his comments. This is DeWitt's reply to Wheeler's comments. It is notable because DeWitt mentions Everett, Bohr, Rosenfeld, and Wheeler's companion to Everett's paper.
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found in the John A. Wheeler papers at the American Philosophical Society.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8rv0dd6m
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1183
Language
English
eng
Subject
DeWitt, Bryce S.
Everett, Hugh III
Wheeler, John A.
Correspondence
Bohr, Niels H.D.
Rosenfeld, Leon
Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation
Relation
Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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