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Title: Hugh Everett letter to Aage Petersen, June-1956
Creator: Everett, Hugh
Contributor: Petersen, Aage, annotator
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956-06
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection: Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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: Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Everett became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. Since he considered Petersen a friend, Everett was often more informal and frank about his appraisals of the Copenhagen response to his thesis in correspondence with Petersen than with other Bohr acolytes. In this letter, for instance, Everett is explicit that he does not believe the Copenhagen physicists have understood his proposal and he encourages Petersen to re-read his thesis more carefully.
Scope/Content: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne.
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/81235/d86w96p32
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1191
Language: English
eng
Subject: Bohr, Niels H.D.
Petersen, Aage
Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation
Relation: Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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