Hugh Everett III

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US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics

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According to Wikipedia, Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation. In contrast to the then-dominant Copenhagen interpretation, the MWI posits that the wave function never collapses and that all possibilities of a quantum superposition are objectively real.

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