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Hugh Everett III
Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who proposed the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics. This influential approach later became the basis of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI). Everett's theory dropped the wave function collapse postulate of quantum measurement theory, incorporating the observer in the same quantum state as the observation result. The quantum statistic bec…
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science · American scientist (1930–1982) · mathematician · physicist · theoretical physicist · also Hugh Everett III, Hugh Everett, III
Born 11 November 1930 · Died 19 July 1982 · Q370046
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100” in Science — cited 7,205 times.
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1982· 1 entry
Died 1982-07-19.
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1980· 1 entry
Wheeler said he thought the theory "creates too great a load of metaphysical baggage to carry along"
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1977· 1 entry
Everett was invited to give a talk at a conference Wheeler had organized at Wheeler's new location at the University of Texas at Austin
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1976· 1 entry
An article on Everett's work appeared in the science fiction magazine Analog
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1973· 1 entry
Everett and Donald Reisler (a Lambda colleague and fellow physicist) left the firm to establish DBS Corporation in Arlington, Virginia
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1970· 1 entry
Bryce DeWitt wrote an article for Physics Today on Everett's relative-state theory, which he dubbed many-worlds, which prompted a number of letters from physicists
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1963· 1 entry
Relates the Lagrangian bidual to the primal problem
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1962· 1 entry
Everett accepted an invitation to present the relative-state formulation (as it was still called) at a conference on the foundations of quantum mechanics at Xavier University
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1957· 2 entries
Started editing an anthology on the many-worlds interpretation
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Became director of the WSEG's Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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1955· 1 entry
Wrote a couple of short papers on quantum theory, and completed his long paper "Wave Mechanics Without Probability" in April 1956
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1954· 1 entry
Everett took Methods of Mathematical Physics with Eugene Wigner, although he remained active in mathematics and presented a paper on military game theory in December
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1953· 2 entries
Took his first physics courses, notably Introductory Quantum Mechanics with Robert Dicke
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With a degree in chemical engineering, although he had completed sufficient courses for a mathematics degree as well
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1949· 1 entry
Taking a year off from his undergraduate studies
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-11-11.
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