David Bohm

David Joseph Bohm was an American, Brazilian, and British physicist, philosopher, and university teacher. Born in Wilkes-Barre in 1917, he worked in physics, quantum physics, and quantum theory. He participated in the Manhattan Project and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. His notable works include *The Ending of Time: Where Philosophy and Physics Meet*, *Der Dialog*, *Die verborgene Ordnung des Lebens*, *Fragmentation and wholeness*, and *Thought as a system*.

Bohm was educated at the University of Bristol, California Institute of Technology, and University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral advisor was J. Robert Oppenheimer. He taught at the University of São Paulo, Birkbeck, University of London, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University. He was a doctoral student of Oppenheimer and supervised David Pines, Yakir Aharonov, Jeffrey Bub, and Harry J. Lipkin. He was a member of the Royal Society and received the Elliott Cresson Medal. He died of myocardial infarction in London in 1992.