Date Created: 1957-04-11

Creator: Groenewold, H. J.

Contributor(s): Wheeler, John A., annotator | Everett, Hugh, annotator

Description: In mid-March, 1957, as Hugh Everett III was preparing to defend his thesis and graduate, John Wheeler asked him to send preprints of the short thesis and Wheeler's companion article to Bohr and other prominent physicists. In April, H. J. Groenewold of Natuurkundig Laboratorium der Rijks-Universiteit te Groningen, Germany wrote to Everett and Wheeler with his criticism of the revised dissertation. He had previously read the long dissertation sent to Copenhagen. He thought that the preprint was a "much improved" abstract of a (rewritten) longer thesis, although he confessed to not being able to follow many of the arguments. Everett furiously annotated his copy of Groenewold's letter, answering his criticisms point by point and concluding that Groenewold, too, had not thoroughly studied his work.

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1156

Title: H. J. Groenewold letter to John Wheeler, 11-April-1957

Subjects: Groenewold, H.J. | Correspondence | Relative states, branches, and worlds | Everett, Hugh III | Wheeler, John A. | Quantum Mechanics

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 copyright holder and 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.

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