Hugh Everett III
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Hugh Everett III
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Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. In danger of losing his draft deferment, Everett took a research job with the Pentagon the year before completing the oral exam for his PhD and did not continue research in theoretical physics after his graduation. Afterward, he developed the use of generalized Lagrange multipliers for operations research and applied this commercially as
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American scientist (1930–1982)
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2004-03-22T05:30:46Z
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2024-09-02T13:00:07Z
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