Text / Alexander Stern letter to John A. Wheeler, 20-May-1956
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- Title
- Alexander Stern letter to John A. Wheeler, 20-May-1956
- Creator
- Stern, Alexander
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1956-05-20
- 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: Alexander Stern was an American physicist and engineer who spent many years during the 1950s and 1960s in residence at Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. In April, 1956 a copy of the long version of Hugh Everett's thesis was sent to the Institute; the next month, John A. Wheeler traveled to Copenhagen to discuss the thesis with Bohr and others. Soon after he left, Stern held a seminar on Everett's work, during which he recorded some of the reactions of members of the Institute to Everett's ideas. After the seminar, Stern wrote a long letter to Wheeler describing his own (and reporting on his colleagues') dissatisfaction with Everett's theory.
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/d8wd3qf2r
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1160
- Language
- English
eng
- Subject
- Stern, Alexander W.
Bohr, Niels H.D.
Wheeler, John A.
Quantum mechanics -- Copenhagen interpretation
Quantum measurement problem
Pure wave mechanics
Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
- Relation
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Hugh Everett III Correspondence
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