Basil Hiley

Basil J. Hiley (born 1935), is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London.

Basil Hiley
Born1935 (age 88–89)
British Burma
Alma materKing's College London
AwardsMajorana Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Quantum mechanics
InstitutionsUniversity of London

Long-time colleague of David Bohm, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on implicate orders and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras.[1] Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm, which is considered the main reference for Bohm's interpretation of quantum theory.

The work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question "whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature" and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order.[2]

  1. ^ Basil Hiley, website of Maurice A. de Gosson, 2005, accessed on 1 September 2012
  2. ^ Freire, Olival Jr. (2011). "Continuity and change: charting David Bohm's evolving ideas on quantum mechanics". In Krause, Décio; Videira, Antonio (eds.). Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: An Account of Recent Works. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 290. Springer. pp. 291–300. ISBN 978-90-481-9421-6.