David Bohm
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1917
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 47
Top works
- The Ending of Time: Where Philosophy and Physics Meet
- Der Dialog
- Die verborgene Ordnung des Lebens
- Fragmentation and wholeness
- Thought as a system
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,001x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,882x
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 62,913x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 60,733x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 57,920x
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Key facts
- Born
- David Joseph Bohm , ( 1917-12-20 ) 20 December 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , US
- Died
- 27 October 1992 (1992-10-27) (aged 74), London , England, UK
- Citizenship
- American Brazilian British
- Alma mater
- Pennsylvania State College ( BS ), University of California, Berkeley ( PhD )
- Awards
- 1991 Elliott Cresson Medal 1990 Royal Society fellowship
- Fields
- Theoretical physics
- Institutions
- Princeton University University of São Paulo Technion University of Bristol Birkbeck College, London
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Doctoral students
- Y. Aharonov D. Pines J. Bub H. Bortoft Eugene P. Gross
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 December 1917
- Died
- 27 October 1992
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wilkes-Barre
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- nuclear physicist
- Employer
- University of Bristol
- Languages spoken
- English language
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David Joseph Bohm (/boʊm/; 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American physicist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Among his many contributions to physics is his causal and deterministic interpretation of quantum theory known as De Broglie–Bohm theory.
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'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.
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