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Alexander Stern was an American physicist and engineer who spent many years during the 1950s and 1960s is residence at Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. In April, 1956 a copy of the long version of Hugh Everett's thesis was sent to the Institute; the next month, Wheeler traveled to Copenhagen to discuss the thesis with Bohr and others. Soon after he left, Stern held a seminar on Everett's work, during which he recorded some of the reactions of members of the Institute to Everett's ideas. After the seminar, Stern wrote a long letter to John Wheeler describing his own (and reporting on his colleagues') dissatisfaction with Everett's theory. Here Wheeler replies to Stern. This letter shows both sides of Wheeler delicate position on his student's work: on the one hand, he defends Everett, while simultaneously insisting that Everett's theory is not in conflict with Bohr's. |
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Stern, Alexander W.
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Bohr, Niels H.D.
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Wheeler, John A.
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Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation
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Quantum measurement problem
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Pure wave mechanics
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Everett, Hugh III
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Correspondence
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en_US |
| Rights |
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 and Professor Jeffrey A. Barrett. The author(s) of the material or their heirs retain copyright to this material.
Used with the permission of the the copyright holder and estate of Hugh Everett, III.
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University of California, Irvine Libraries. Irvine, California 92623-9557. http://www.lib.uci.edu. |
| Provenance |
This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne. |
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