Date Created: 1956-05-26

Creator: Wheeler, John A.

Contributor(s): Everett, Hugh, correspondent

Description: In spring of 1956, John Wheeler was in residence at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden, Netherlands. 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. This is a letter he wrote to Everett after he returned to Leiden, following up on his letter from the day before (in which he forwarded Alexander Stern's criticisms to Everett). Here he includes his notes from a conversation with Niels Bohr — dated 4 May 1956 — on Everett's thesis, and urges Everett to come to Copenhagen immediately to discuss his work with Bohr. He includes an offer to pay for Everett's travel from his own research funds. Although Everett would ultimately travel to Copenhagen in 1959, he did not accept the invitation Wheeler extends here.

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1149

Title: John Wheeler letter to Hugh Everett, 26-May-1956

Subjects: Bohr, Niels H.D. | Wheeler, John A. | Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation | Quantum measurement problem | Pure wave mechanics | Everett, Hugh III | Petersen, Aage | Correspondence

Type: Archives and Manuscripts

Language: 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 estate of Hugh Everett, III.

Provenance: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne.

Publisher: University of California, Irvine Libraries. Irvine, California 92623-9557. http://www.lib.uci.edu.