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  • Life History of Ralph W. Spitzer

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    Petersen, Chris
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    A detailed biographical sketch of Ralph W. Spitzer (b. 1918), a graduate student of Linus Pauling's and promising academic who joined the Oregon State College chemistry department in 1946. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Spitzer was nonetheless fired from the OSC faculty in 1949 by President August L. Strand,...
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    Dr. Hugh Huffman on a project to improve a cooling apparatus designed to attain temperatures

  • The Consistent Histories Approach to the Stern-Gerlach Experiment

    Creator:
    Wilson, Ian
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    Standard quantum mechanics makes foundational assumptions to describe the measurement process. Upon interaction with a “classical measurement apparatus”, a quantum system is subjected to postulated “state collapse” dynamics. We show that framing measurement around state collapse and ill-defined classical observers leads to interpretational issues, and artificially limits the scope of...
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    assumptions to describe the measurement process. Upon interaction with a “classical measurement apparatus”, a