“On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox”
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John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories.
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science · Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990) · mathematician · physicist · translator · also John Stewart Bell, John S. Bell, J. S. Bell, Bell
Born 28 June 1928 · Died 1 October 1990 · Q370077
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2026· 3 entries
BBC: GB's Hunter-Bell comfortably wins 'serene, beautiful' 1500m gold
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BBC: GB's Hunter Bell glides into 1500m final
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2022· 1 entry
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for work on Bell inequalities and the experimental validation of Bell's theorem
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2020· 1 entry
Published “The ERA5 global reanalysis” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society — cited 24,461 times.
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2017· 1 entry
The Institute of Physics commissioned classical composer Matthew Whiteside's Quartet No 4 (Entangled) to be performed at the 2018 NI Science Festival inspired by Bell's work; the piece went on to become the title track o
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2016· 2 entries
And houses over 400 students in Belfast city centre
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His colleague from CERN, Reinhold Bertlmann, wrote a lengthy piece, "Bell's Universe: A Personal Recollection", explaining in some detail his amazement at finding out about Bell's paper on Bertlmann's socks, in which Bel
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2010· 1 entry
Jeffrey Bub published an argument that Bell (and, implicitly, Hermann) had misconstrued von Neumann's proof, saying that it does not attempt to prove the absolute impossibility of hidden variables, and is actually not fl
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2009· 1 entry
The first award was presented by Alain Aspect to Nicolas Gisin for his theoretical and experimental work on foundations and applications of quantum physics — notably quantum nonlocality, quantum cryptography, and quantum
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2008· 1 entry
The John Stewart Bell Prize was created by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto
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2004· 1 entry
“Introduction: John Bell and the second quantum revolution”
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1990· 2 entries
Died 1990-10-01.
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“Bohr was inconsistent, unclear, willfully obscure and right. Einstein was consistent, clear, down-to-earth and wrong.”
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1989· 3 entries
Won Hughes Medal (1989).
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Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1989).
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On the occasion of the centenary of the Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction Bell writes "A great deal of nonsense has been written about the FitzGerald contraction"
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1988· 1 entry
Won IOP Dirac Medal (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987).
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Inspired by Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory, he also advocated collapse theories
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1986· 1 entry
“Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics”
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1982· 1 entry
“On the impossible pilot wave”
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1981· 1 entry
“Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists”
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1972).
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An experiment was conducted that, when extrapolated to ideal detector efficiencies, showed a violation of Bell's inequality
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1971· 1 entry
“Introduction to the hidden-variable question”
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1964· 1 entry
After a year's leave from CERN that he spent at Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Brandeis University, Bell wrote a paper entitled "On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox"
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1960· 1 entry
Moved to work for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), in Geneva, Switzerland
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1956· 2 entries
Specialising in nuclear physics and quantum field theory
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Studied at University of Birmingham, Doctor (1956).
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1954· 1 entry
Married Mary Ross, also a physicist, whom he had met while working on accelerator physics at Malvern, UK
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at Queen's University Belfast (1945–1949).
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1948· 1 entry
Obtained a bachelor's degree in experimental physics and, a year later, a bachelor's degree in mathematical physics
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1935· 2 entries
“The proof of von Neumann is not merely false but foolish!”
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But did not become common knowledge until after it was rediscovered by Bell
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-06-28.
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