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Title
Leon Rosenfeld letter to F.J. Belinfante 22-June-1972
Creator
Rosenfeld, Leon
Date Created and/or Issued
1972-06-22
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.
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Scope/Content: Leon Rosenfeld was a close collaborator of Niels Bohr's, with whom both Hugh Everett and John Wheeler discussed Everett's work. After the initial debate with Bohr and his collaborators, during which nether side was convinced of the other's position, Rosenfeld took the role of defender of the faith. In a series of letters to various physicists, Rosenfeld harshly criticized Everett and his work. F. J. Belinfante was a physicist at Purdue university. In 1972, he and Rosenfeld had an extended correspondence concerning the foundations of quantum mechanics, including discussions of both Everett and Leslie Ballentine, another physicist working on the foundations of quantum mechanics. (The present archive only contains Rosenfeld's replies to Belinfante.) This is the first letter in the series. Everett is mentioned and dismissed; in later letters, Rosenfeld objects to Belinfante's attempts to reconstruct Everett favorably.
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found in the Niels Bohr Archive.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8k35mt1t
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1137
Language
English
eng
Subject
Rosenfeld, Leon
Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
Bell, John S.
Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation
Relation
Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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