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Old 03-March-2008, 10:26 AM
Ivan Viehoff Ivan Viehoff is offline
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Originally Posted by Occams Ghost View Post
The Copenhagen Interpretation:
Developed in 1920's by the 'father and mother' of physics called Niels Bohr. He named his work after his own town, in Denmark.
Errmmmmm..... Not true.
It wasn't something he solely/explicitly developed, and he didn't give it the name.

Others, especially Heisenberg, made their contributions. There is no evidence Bohr or Heisenberg ever used the term. Others gave it that name.

Information readily available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
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