Jeffrey Bub (born 1942) is a physicist and philosopher of physics, and Distinguished Professor[ Jeffrey Bub , Faculty page, University of Maryland, College Park (downloaded February 23, 2012)]
Education
He obtained his bachelor's degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Cape Town. A scholarship allowed him to work at
Birkbeck College with
David Bohm who had profound intellectual influence on his work.
Bub obtained his PhD in Mathematical Physics from London University in 1966. Before taking up his position as professor at the University of Maryland in 1986, he worked at the University of Minnesota,
Yale University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Western Ontario. He has been visiting professor at Princeton University, Yale University, the University of California at Irvine, the CPNSS at the London School of Economics, the University of California at San Diego, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Vienna.
[ CV at John Templeton Foundation (downloaded February 23, 2012)]
His main research interests relate to quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation, and quantum cryptography. In 1998, his book Interpreting the Quantum World won the Lakatos Award.[ Short CV, Cambridge University (downloaded February 23, 2012)] In 2005 he received the University of Maryland's Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize for his work in the area of quantum foundations and quantum information.
Bub has published over 100 scientific articles; the first of these are three articles authored together with David Bohm and published in 1966 and 1968. In 2010, he published an argument that the famous work of John Stewart Bell (and, thus, Grete Hermann) had misconstrued John von Neumann's no hidden variables proof of the impossibility of hidden variables in quantum mechanics.
Works
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Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates, Oxford University Press, 2016,
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Interpreting the Quantum World, Cambridge University Press, 1997,
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The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science), Springer, 1974,
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Further reading
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William Demopoulos and Itamar Pitowsky (eds.): Physical Theory and its Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub, Springer, 2006,
External links
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Jeffrey Bub, CV at John Templeton Foundation
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Jeffrey Bub, homepage and List of publications
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Jeffrey Bub, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
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Works by Jeffrey Bub, philpapers.org
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Jeffrey Bub, Rob Clifton: A uniqueness theorem for “No collapse” interpretations of quantum mechanics, Stud. Hist. Mod. Phys., vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 181–219, 1996
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Lectures by Jeffrey Bub, PIRSA, Perimeter Institute
