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Title
John Wheeler excerpted letter to Niels Bohr, 24-April-1956
Creator
Wheeler, John A.
Date Created and/or Issued
1956-04-24
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
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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.
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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 the Institute; the next month, Wheeler traveled to Copenhagen to discuss the thesis with Bohr and others. This document is an excerpt of a letter that Wheeler wrote to Bohr to plan his visit to Copenhagen, and describes that he hopes to talk about. He indicates that he is about to send a draft of the long thesis to Aage Petersen.
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/d88s4k294
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1195
Language
English
eng
Subject
Everett, Hugh III
Bohr, Niels H.D.
Wheeler, John A.
Correspondence
Relation
Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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