Thursday, December 14, 2023

David Bohm (1917-1992)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12577912/

https://youtu.be/cysMpadecfU?si=CfrsfxirOnHP8VKY

His final work, the posthumously published The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory (1993), resulted from a decades-long collaboration with Basil Hiley.


Near the end of his life, Bohm began to experience a recurrence of the depression that he had suffered earlier in life. He was admitted to the Maudsley Hospital in South London on 10 May 1991. His condition worsened and it was decided that the only treatment that might help him was electroconvulsive therapy. Bohm's wife consulted psychiatrist David Shainberg, Bohm's longtime friend and collaborator, who agreed that electroconvulsive treatments were probably his only option. Bohm showed improvement from the treatments and was released on 29 August, but his depression returned and was treated with medication.[48]

Bohm died after suffering a heart attack in Hendon, London, on 27 October 1992, aged 74.[49]

The film Infinite Potential is based on Bohm's life and studies; it adopts the same name as the biography by F. David Peat.[50]


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