I present a biographical profile of John S. Bell based upon extensive interviews I had with him. I present Bell‘s views on the quantum theory along with a simple explanation of his identity.
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Jeremy Bernstein is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology and a former staff writer for The New Yorker.
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Bernstein, J. John Bell and the Identical Twins. Phys. perspect. 10, 269–286 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-008-0380-8
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Keywords:
- John S. Bell
- Mary Bell
- Max Born
- Albert Einstein
- Rudolf Peierls
- David Bohm
- John von Neumann
- Queen’s College, Belfast
- CERN
- Stern-Gerlach experiment
- EPR experiment
- quantum theory
- Copenhagen interpretation
- Bohmian quantum mechanics
- Bell’s theorem
- Einstein robotics