
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.
Background
- Born in
- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityThe Catholic University of AmericaSt. John's College High School
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John Archibald Wheeler
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"The physical "reality" is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself."
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1930
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