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Hugh Everett III Manuscripts

Owning Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Digital Scholarship Services

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American physicist Hugh Everett, III (1930-1982) first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. These documents include scanned original documents draft and final versions of Everett’s long and short Ph.D. theses and the early notes that led to these published works, Everett’s correspondence regarding his relative state formulation of pure wave mechanics, and miscellaneous biographical material. The files have metadata-only public access, please contact the contribution institution directly for full access.

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230 items found in this collection

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"1. Composite Systems," handwritten draft, circa 1956
"1. Macroscopic objects and classical mechanics," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"1. Probability Distributions," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"2. Deductions," handwritten notes, circa 1955
"2. Information and Correlation in Quantum Mechanics," handwritten draft, circa 1956
"2. Introduction of Observers," handwritten draft, circa, 1955
"3. Amplification Processes," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"3. Hidden variables interpretation," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"3. Measurement," handwritten draft, circa 1956
"3. Outline of the method," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"3. Remarks on actual measuring processes," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"3. Remarks on the choice of squared amplitude measure," handwritten draft, circa ...
"3. Reversibility and irreversibility," version 1, handwritten draft, circa 1955
"3. Reversibility and irreversibility," version 2, handwritten draft, circa 1955
"4. Approximate measurement," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"4. Generalization and further properties of correlation," handwritten draft, circa 1956
"4. Generalization and further properties of correlation information," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"4. Several observers," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"4. The stochastic process interpretation," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"5. Discussion of a spin measurement example," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"5. Information for general distributions," handwritten draft, circa 1956
"5. Prediction Schemes," circa 1955
"5. The wave interpretation," handwritten draft, circa 1955
"6. Information decay in stochastic processes," handwritten draft, circa 1956
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