Hugh Everett III
| Hugh Everett III | |
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Hugh Everett in 1964
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| Born |
November 11, 1930 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | July 19, 1982 (aged 51) McLean, Virginia, U.S. |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Physics Operations research Optimization Game theory |
| Institutions |
Institute for Defense Analyses Monowave Corporation |
| Alma mater |
The Catholic University of America Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Archibald Wheeler |
| Known for |
Many-worlds interpretation Everett's theorem |
| Children | Elizabeth Everett, Mark Oliver Everett |
Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation.
Discouraged by the scorn of other physicists for MWI, Everett ended his physics career after completing his Ph.D. Afterwards, he developed the use of generalized Lagrange multipliers for operations research and applied this commercially as a defense analyst and a consultant. He was married to Nancy Everett née Gore. They had two children: Elizabeth Everett and Mark Oliver Everett, who became frontman of the musical band Eels.
Born in 1930, Everett was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Everett's parents separated when he was young. Initially raised by his mother (Katherine Lucille Everett née Kennedy), he was raised by his father (Hugh Everett Jr) and stepmother (Sarah Everett née Thrift) from the age of seven.
Everett won a half scholarship to St John's College, a private military high school in Washington DC. From there he moved to the nearby Catholic University of America to study chemical engineering as an undergraduate. While there he read about Dianetics in Astounding Science Fiction. Although he never exhibited any interest in Scientology (as Dianetics became), he did retain a distrust of conventional medicine throughout his life.
During World War II his father was away fighting in Europe as a lieutenant colonel on the general staff. After World War II, Everett's father was stationed in West Germany, and Hugh joined him, during 1949, taking a year out from his undergraduate studies. Father and son were both keen photographers and took hundreds of pictures of West Germany being rebuilt. Reflecting their technical interests, the pictures were "almost devoid of people".
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