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Title
Aage Petersen letter to John Wheeler, 26-May-1956
Creator
Petersen, Aage
Date Created and/or Issued
1956-05-26
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information
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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. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description
Scope/Content: In spring of 1956, John Wheeler was in residence at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden, Netherlands. In April, 1956 a copy of the long version of Hugh Everett's thesis was sent to Niels Bohr's Institute; the next month, Wheeler traveled to Copenhagen to discuss the thesis with Bohr and others. This is a letter from Aage Petersen thanking Wheeler for his visit and returning the copy of Everett's thesis that Wheeler had sent to Bohr in April.
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found in the John A. Wheeler papers at the American Philosophical Society.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d85x25s3c
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1209
Language
English
eng
Subject
Petersen, Aage
Everett, Hugh III
Wheeler, John A.
Correspondence
Relation
Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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