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Hugh Everett III

1930 - 1982

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Hugh Everett III (; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who proposed the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics. This influential approach later became the basis of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI). Everett's theory dropped the wave function collapse postulate of quantum measurement theory, incorporating the observer in the same quantum state as the observation result. The quantum statistic becomes a measure of the branching of the universal wave function. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Everett III is the 203rd most popular physicist (down from 157th in 2019), the 755th most popular biography from United States (down from 581st in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Physicist.

Hugh Everett III is most famous for proposing the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hugh Everett III ranks 203 out of 851. Before him are Horst Ludwig Störmer, Bertram Brockhouse, Max Delbrück, David Brewster, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, and Kip Thorne. After him are Klaus von Klitzing, Karl Schwarzschild, Maurice Wilkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Edward Mills Purcell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Hugh Everett III ranks 45. Before him are Claude Chabrol, Carlos Menem, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Anisa Makhlouf, Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, and Tony Lip. After him are Pat Robertson, Joanne Woodward, Harold Pinter, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gary Becker, and Gylmar dos Santos Neves. Among people deceased in 1982, Hugh Everett III ranks 30. Before him are Glenn Gould, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Barack Obama Sr., Hugo Theorell, Gala Dalí, and Georges Perec. After him are Mikhail Suslov, Władysław Gomułka, Jacques Tati, C. R. Swart, Curd Jürgens, and Walter Hallstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugh Everett III ranks 755 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Goodyear (1800), Mike Pence (1959), William G. Morgan (1870), Bell hooks (1952), Kip Thorne (1940), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927). After him are Diana Ross (1944), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Pat Robertson (1930), Oprah Winfrey (1954), and Jeff Goldblum (1952).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Hugh Everett III ranks 37. Before him are Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), and Kip Thorne (1940). After him are Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), Steven Weinberg (1933), and Robert H. Goddard (1882).

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