David Bohm was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1917. He went to Pennsylvania State University to study physics, and later to the University of California at Berkeley to work on ...

American physicist David Bohm proposed an entirely new way of understanding quantum physics—but that had been proven impossible 20 years before, by John von Neumann, the greatest mathematical ...

Likewise, in quantum physics, ... But in 1959, physicists Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predicted that, in a specific scenario, the conventional wisdom would fail.

Originally predicted by Werner Ehrenberg and Raymond Siday in 1949, the effect is named after Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm, who published an analysis of it a decade later. They showed that while ...

Your Physics World account is separate to any IOP accounts you may have. Note: ... This effect was proposed in 1959 by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm and confirmed by an experiment done by Robert ...

In August 1992 I visited David Bohm at his home in a London suburb. His skin was alarmingly pale, especially in contrast to his purplish lips and dark, wiry hair. His frame, sinking into a large ...

David Bohm was a brilliant physicist. In the latter part of World War II, ... after which he went to England and had a long career there as a professor of physics. In 1986, ...

Like Bohm, Smolin comes from the U.S., but, since 2001, has lived in Canada as a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont.