Fred Alan Wolf | |
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 Wolf, c. 2005 | |
| Born | December 3, 1934 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | PhD in theoretical physics, 1963 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, science writer |
| Website | www.fredalanwolf.com |
Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness. He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel. He is the author of a number of physics-themed books including Taking the Quantum Leap (1981), The Dreaming Universe (1994), Mind into Matter (2000), and Time Loops and Space Twists (2011).[1]
Wolf was a member in the 1970s, with Jack Sarfatti and others, of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Fundamental Fysiks Group founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann.[2] His theories about the interrelation of consciousness and quantum physics were described by Newsweek in 2007 as "on the fringes of mainstream science."[3]
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- ^ Kaiser, David. "Lecture: How the Hippies Saved Physics" Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, WGBH PBS, April 28, 2010, from time index 0:04:00, and particularly from time index 0:11:00 and 0:23:00.
- Kaiser, David. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival. W. W. Norton & Co Inc., 2011.
- ^ "No New Thinking in Rhonda Byrne's Publishing Phenom 'The Secret'", Newsweek, February 25, 2007.