Hugh Everett

Hugh Everett

Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who proposed the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics. This influential approach later became the basis of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI). Everett's theory dropped the wave function collapse postulate of quantum measurement theory, incorporating the observer in the same quantum state as the observation result.

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1930 – 1982
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Born in
Washington, D.C.
Educated at
Princeton UniversityThe Catholic University of AmericaSt. John's College High School
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🎓 John Archibald Wheeler

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  • 1930

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  • 1982

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