Physics

Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Lawrence Bragg, CH, OBE, MC, FRS[1] (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg’s law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915: “For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray”, an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.

Bragg was knighted in 1941. As of 2018, he is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, having received the award at the age of 25 years. Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when the discovery of the structure of DNA was reported by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953.
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Gregory Breit

Gregory Breit (RussianГригорий Альфредович Брейт-ШнайдерGrigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider; July 14, 1899, MykolaivKherson Governorate – September 13, 1981, Salem, Oregon) was a Russian-born American physicist and professor at NYU (1929–1934), U. of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale (1947–1968), and Buffalo (1968–1973). In 1921, he was Paul Ehrenfest‘s assistant in Leiden.
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David Bohm – Wikipedia

David Joseph Bohm FRS (/bm/; December 20, 1917 – October 27, 1992) was an American scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theoryneuropsychology and the philosophy of mind.

David Bohm
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Born December 20, 1917
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Died October 27, 1992(aged 74)
London, England, UK
Nationality American
Citizenship

  • American
  • Brazilian
  • British
Alma mater

Known for

Awards

Scientific career
Fields Theoretical physics
Institutions

Doctoral advisor Robert Oppenheimer
Doctoral students

Influences Albert Einstein
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Influenced

John Stewart Bell

Peter Senge

Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of “implicate” and “explicate” order. He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are.

Bohm warned of the dangers of rampant reason and technology, advocating instead the need for genuine supportive dialogue, which he claimed could broaden and unify conflicting and troublesome divisions in the social world. In this, his epistemologymirrored his ontology. Due to his Communist affiliations, Bohm was the subject of a federal government investigation in 1949, prompting him to leave the United States. He pursued his scientific career in several countries, becoming first a Brazilian and then a British citizen. He abandoned Marxism in the wake of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.

Bohm’s main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which according to Bohm is never static or complete but rather an unfolding process.

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