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William Harvey letter to Hugh Everett, 8-June-1977 with Everett's reply, 20-June-1977

Everett, Hugh

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In 1977, Bill Harvey, a historian of science at the University of Edinburgh, wrote to Hugh Everett in conjunction to a book he was writing on the history of quantum mechanics. He asks Everett various questions about how he viewed his thesis then, in 1977, as well as to what degree Everett kept up with the literature on foundations of quantum mechanics. Everett answers both questions.

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In 1977, Bill Harvey, a historian of science at the University of Edinburgh, wrote to Hugh Everett in conjunction to a book he was writing on the history of quantum mechanics. He asks Everett various questions about how he viewed his thesis then, in 1977, as well as to what degree Everett kept up with the literature on foundations of quantum mechanics. Everett answers both questions.
In the early 1970s, physicist and philosopher of physics Max Jammer began working on a follow up to his classic 1966 book, The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics. Jammer hoped that the new book, The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics in Historical Perspective (1974), could contain some additional information on the Hugh Everett interpretation. He wrote to Everett of August of 1973; here, Everett responds in some detail to Jammer's questions about his intellectual development and the origins of his thesis.
In the early 1970s, physicist and philosopher of physics Max Jammer began working on a follow up to his classic 1966 book, The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics. Jammer hoped that the new book, The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics in Historical Perspective (1974), could contain some additional information on the Hugh Everett interpretation. Here he writes to Everett with some questions concerning Everett's intellectual development and the historical context in which Everett developed his interpretation.
In June of 1957, shortly after defending his thesis, Hugh Everett III wrote to the AIP in search of David Bohm, a former professor at Princeton who had made important contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics. He was suspended by Princeton in 1951 because he refused to testify for the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1955, he moved to Israel, where he taught in Haifa; in 1957, he became a research fellow at the University of Bristol in the UK. Bohm appeared on the list of physicists that Wheeler thought should see the thesis before publication, but Wheeler did not know how to reach him.