Traces foundational upheavals in quantum mechanics from its post-war revival due to David Bohm to the start of the quantum information era

Makes fascinating connections to political and cultural issues of the times

Author an emininent historian of quantum physics, whose previous works have won acclaim

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Dissidents and the Second Quantum Revolution.- Challenging the Monocracy of the Copenhagen School.- The Origin of the Everettian Heresy.- The Monocracy is Broken: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Wigner's Case.- The Tausk Controversy on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics.- "From the streets into academia" - Political activism and the reconfiguration of physics around 1970.- Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982).- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.- The Monocracy is Broken: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Wigner's Case.- The Tausk Controversy on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics.- "From the streets into academia" - Political activism and the reconfiguration of physics around 1970.- Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982).- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

"From the streets into academia" - Political activism and the reconfiguration of physics around 1970.-

Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982).-

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982).-

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982).-

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982).-

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.

The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off.- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.