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David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order & other works (19 books)
DAVID BOHM (1917–1992) was an American-born British theoretical physicist who was a
leading expert in the fields of theoretical physics, neuropsychology and
philosophy. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential theoretical
physicists of the 20th century.
By the time his theory was published in 1952, political problems had forced Bohm to
emigrate. He had been involved in left-wing politics during World War II, which in
the postwar climate of McCarthyism made him be seen as a security threat. He was
suspended from teaching duties and in 1951 lost his job at Princeton. With
Einstein's help, he found a position at the University of São Paulo and in 1955 at
the Technion in Israel. After 1957 he worked in at the University of Bristol and
then, from 1961 until retirement in 1987, as a professor of theoretical physics at
Birkbeck College, University of London.
Initially ignored, the idea of hidden variables inspired interest after the
publication of Bohm's CAUSALITY AND CHANCE IN MODERN PHYSICS (1957), the prediction
of the Aharonov-Bohm effect (1959), and especially after it led American physicist
John Bell to discover the Bell inequality theorem (1964). Efforts to interpret
quantum theory changed as a result of Bohm's work, with discussion shifting to the
issues of nonlocality, nonseparability, and entanglement.
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