Hugh Everett III - Wikipedia
WEBHugh Everett III (/ ˈ ɛ v ər ɪ t /; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics.
Hugh Everett: The man who gave us the multiverse | New Scientist
WEBSep 24, 2014 · quantum science. The physicist developed the idea that we're living in a multiverse of countless universes, full of copies of each of us. His life was fascinating and tragic.
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett - Scientific American
WEBOct 21, 2008 · Hugh Everett III was a brilliant mathematician, an iconoclastic quantum theorist and, later, a successful defense contractor with access to the nation’s most sensitive military secrets.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of HUGH EVERETT, III - Massachusetts …
WEBHugh's grandfather, Hugh Everett Sr., was a printer for the Washington Post at one time. He also owned the Terminal Press, a company where one of his sons, Charles (an uncle of Hugh Everett, III) worked until the mid-1930s.
Many-worlds interpretation - Wikipedia
WEBMany-worlds is also called the relative state formulation or the Everett interpretation, after physicist Hugh Everett, who first proposed it in 1957. [4] [5] Bryce DeWitt popularized the formulation and named it many-worlds in the 1970s. [6] [1] [7] [8]
The Many Worlds Theory Today | NOVA - PBS
WEBOct 21, 2008 · Half a century has passed since 27-year-old Hugh Everett III published a version of his Princeton Ph.D. dissertation in a leading physics journal, introducing the scientific world to his radical...
Everettian Quantum Mechanics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBJun 3, 1998 · Hugh Everett III proposed solving the quantum measurement problem by adopting pure wave mechanics, the theory one gets by dropping the collapse dynamics from the standard von Neumann formulation of quantum mechanics.
Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
WEBMar 24, 2002 · There are numerous variations and reinterpretations of the original Everett proposal, most of which are briefly discussed in the entry on Everett’s relative state formulation of quantum mechanics. Here, a particular approach to the MWI (which differs from the popular “actual splitting worlds” approach in De Witt 1970) will be presented in ...
The father of parallel universes - Nature
WEBJun 23, 2010 · Robert P. Crease is fascinated by a biography of quantum physicist Hugh Everett III, the difficult man behind one of the most logical and bizarre ideas in the history of human thought.
WEBHugh Everett III occupies a peculiar place in the history of physics, famous for his sole contribution, the idea that quantum theory can best be understood as describing many equally real alternative worlds corresponding to the different possible classical outcomes arising from quantum events.
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