| RefNo | EC/1990/03 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Bohm, David Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1989 |
| Description | Citation handwritten |
| Citation | David Bohm's papers with Foldy on the theory of synchrocyclotrons are standard references in the field. So also are his papers with Goss on plasma oscillations, and with Pines on electrons in metals. These introduced the 'random phase approximation' and showed thereby how interactions between individual electrons give rise to collective oscillations. His work with Aharonov on how the phase of the wave function is observedly influenced by electromagnetic fields in unpenetrated regions gave rise to a number of beautiful experiments, and stimulated the development of guage field theories. Also with Aharonov he contributed significantly to the elucidation of the 'fourth uncertaintly principle'. In 1952 he wrote two papers on 'a hidden variables interpretation of quantum mechanics' which have become classics. They disposed, by counterexample, of the famous 'proof' by von Neumann of the impossibility of such interpretation, and so cleared the way for the discussion of the really novel feature of quantum mechanics, its nonlacality, which led to the famous Aspect experiment. Bohm is the author of excellent textbooks on quantum theory and on relativity, and of several books on the meaning of modern physics which have attracted wide attention. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6391 | Bohm; David Joseph (1917 - 1992) | 1917 - 1992 |