John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics · Vision and Integrity by Whitaker, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents 1. A Tough Start but a Good One

Belfast and politics Family background Family life Early education The war and the Tech A year of transition Queen’s: The background Student days Early struggles with quantum theory Early views on quantum theory Last year at Queen’s, and Peter Paul Ewald

2. The 1950s: Progress on All Fronts

Harwell and Klaus Fuchs Accelerators Quantum theory 1: With particular attention to EPR Quantum theory 2: With particular attention to Bohm and hidden variables Personal life in the 1950s Birmingham, Peierls, and CPT Back to Harwell and to theoretical physics Farewell to Harwell

3. The 1960s: The Decade of Greatest Success

CERN John Bell at CERN, and the neutrinos Hidden variables and von Neumann: Bell’s first great paper Bell and local causality: Bell’s second great paper Bell’s general views on quantum theory in the 1960s CPT: Ramifications Bell, gauge theory, and the weak interaction Bell and particle physics in the 1960s The ‘anomaly’: ABJ Bell and quantum theory: The first responses A great decade

4. The 1970s: Interest Increases

Early successes for Bell and for CERN Bell’s theorem: The first results Bell and quantum theory in the 1970s Bell and particle physics in the 1970s

5. The 1980s: Final Achievements but Final Tragedies

Summary of the decade Pasupathy, Bertlmann, and Rajaraman Accelerator work in the 1980s Results and thoughts on quantum theory in the 1980s Honours and endings

6. The Work Continues

Taking Bell’s work forward The birth of quantum information, and Bell’s contribution

7. Work of the Highest Calibre, and a Fine Life References Index