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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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- 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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Quotes
- “There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.”
- “We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.”
- “The point about dialectic is the ultimate identity of the universal and the individual. The individual is universal and the universal is the individual. The word "individual" means undivided, so we could say that very few individuals have ever existed. We could call them dividuals. Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. ... Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.”
- “Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.”
- “Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter . . . Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven , just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.”
- “The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
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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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- date of birth
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- 1992-10-27
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- David Bohm (physicist)
- name in native language
- Böhm Dávid József
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Article
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.