Hugh Everett III is famous as the man who devised the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. Everett’s theory concerns a mysterious puzzle that lies at the heart of quantum physics and ...

Hugh Everett III was a brilliant mathematician, an iconoclastic quantum theorist and, later, a successful defense contractor with access to the nation’s most sensitive military secrets.

Hugh Everett’s many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics arose from what must have been the most world-changing drinking session of all time. One evening in 1954, in a student hall at ...

There is not all that much science in it, or just enough science to give you a sense of what strange and heady stuff Hugh Everett III was into. (There is some oddly elementary information in it as ...

In THE eyes of his young son, Hugh Everett III was a silent, inscrutable figure who remained hidden behind his booze, cigarette smoke and scowl. “My father was so uncommunicative,” the son ...

In histories of quantum physics, Hugh Everett III’s name appears frequently, but without much about the life of the man behind the name. He did not pursue a career in academic physics ...

He didn't hug him at all. In fact, pretty much the first time Mark had any physical contact with Hugh Everett was when he found him dead on the sofa. "It was weird touching him," he said.

For about 50 years, until Hugh Everett came along, physicists divided the universe into two different worlds. One was the indeterministic microscopic world, where elementary particles fly around.

It's the story of Hugh Everett III, a quantum physicist who was "too smart, too soon," who developed a theory — while still at Princeton, at age 24 — that was alarmingly advanced and went ...