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physics.hist-ph2006★ 2 cited
The Tausk Controversy in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Politics, Mentorship and a Dissenter's Disappearance
Osvaldo Pessoa, Olival Freire, Alexis De Greiff
In 1966, the Brazilian physicist Klaus Tausk circulated a preprint from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, criticizing the theory put forward by Daneri,…
physics.hist-ph2005★ 19 cited
Science and exile: David Bohm, the hot times of the Cold War, and his struggle for a new interpretation of quantum mechanics
Olival Freire
This article focuses on the reception among physicists of Bohm's 1952 papers on the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, which were poorly received at the time. I describe h…
physics.hist-ph2005
Philosophy Enters the Optics Laboratory: Bell's Theorem and its First Experimental Tests (1965-1982)
Olival Freire
This paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on the perio…