Text / Hugh Everett letter to Aage Petersen, 31-June-1957
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- Title
- Hugh Everett letter to Aage Petersen, 31-June-1957
- Creator
- Everett, Hugh
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1957-05-31
- Contributing Institution
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UC Irvine,
Libraries, Special Collections
- Collection
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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: 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 Everett responds testily to Petersen's criticisms of his and Wheeler's preprint, as expressed in Petersen's letter of April 24, 1957.
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/d8c824t65
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1152
- Language
- English
eng
- Subject
- Bohr, Niels H.D.
Petersen, Aage
Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation
- Relation
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Hugh Everett III Correspondence
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