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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectDavid Bohm
Dates
December 20, 1917 – October 27, 1992
Authorized Form of Name
Bohm, David, 1917-1992
Additional Forms of Names
Bohm, David
Biography
Abstract
David Bohm was a theoretical physicist, who contributed new ideas to quantum theory and neuropsychology including Bohm diffusion and holonomic brain theory. He worked at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and was well acquainted with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein.
Important Dates
December 20, 1917Birth, Wilkes-Barre (Pa.).
1939Obtained BS, Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University), State College (Pa.).
1943Obtained PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1943 – 1945Physicist, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, Manhattan Project, Berkeley (Calif.).
1946 – 1951Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1951 – 1955Professor of Physics, University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo).
1955 – 1957Research Fellow, Technion (Tekhniyon).
1957 – 1961Research Fellow, University of Bristol.
1961 – 1987Professor of Theoretical Physics, Birkbeck College, London (England).
1990Elected Fellow, Royal Society.
October 27, 1992Death, London (England).
Occupation
Theoretical physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
Discovered the Aharonov-Bohm effect for which they co-received the 1998 Wolf Prize.
Hiley, B. J. (Basil J.)
Hiley co-authored the book "The Undivided Universe" with David Bohm.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Ph.D. advisor at University of California, Berkeley.
Advised by Bohm at Princeton University on the role of plasma oscillations in electron interactions.
Colleagues
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both employed at Princeton University.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wightman, A. S. (Arthur Strong), 1922-2013
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University.
Additional
Aller, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Hugh), 1913-2003
Biederman, Charles Joseph, 1906-2004
Espagnat, Bernard d'
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-
Franklin, Raoul N.
Hartley, Ralph Vinton Lyon, 1888-1970
Mullet, Shawn
Olwell, Russell B., 1969-
Peat, F. David, 1938-
Petersen, Aage
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Salpeter, Edwin E.
Sharpe, Kevin J.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Institutions
Major Positions
Birkbeck College
Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Physicist, Manhattan Project.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Physicist, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Tekhniyon, Makhon tekhnologi le-Yisra'el. Fakultah le-fisikah
Research Fellow.
Universidade de São Paulo. Departamento de Física
Professor of Physics.
University of Bristol. Department of Physics
Research Fellow.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Pennsylvania State University. Department of Physics
Obtained BS in 1939.
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Fellow.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Obtained PhD in 1943.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
David Bohm correspondence with Albert Einstein, 1945-1955.
Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Albert Einstein Archives
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Library
University of London, Birkbeck College
Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Oral history interview with David Bohm, 1981 May 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts, 1922-1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Allen Shenstone autobiography, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Leon Rosenfeld papers, 1911-1974.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oral history interview with Basil J. Hiley, 2008 January 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bernard d'Espagnat, 2001 October 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Finkelstein, 2013 February 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Pines, 1981 April 13 and 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1981 January 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997 November 15 and 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lawrence H. Aller, 1979 August 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Louis de Broglie, 1963 January 7 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Melba Newell Phillips, 1977 December 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Melba Phillips, 1997 December 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Raoul N. Franklin, 2008 October 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Political Science: the red scare as the hidden variable in the Bohmian interpretation of quantum theory / by Shawn Mullet, 1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Princeton, David Bohm and the Cold War: A study in McCarthyism, 1990.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley papers, 1920-1970.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Bohm-Biederman correspondence / David Bohm and Charles Biederman ; edited by Paavo Pylkkanen.
Causality and chance in modern physics. Foreword by Louis De Broglie.
Quanta and reality: a symposium.
Quantum implications : essays in honour of David Bohm / edited by B.J. Hiley, F. David Peat.
The special theory of relativity.
The undivided universe : an ontological interpretation of quantum theory / D. Bohm and B.J. Hiley.
Thought as a system / edited by David Bohm.
Unfolding meaning : a weekend of dialogue with David Bohm.
Wholeness and the implicate order / David Bohm.
Subject
"David Joseph Bohm," Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 43 (1997): 105-131
David Bohm's world : new physics and new religion / Kevin J. Sharpe.