15 Facts About Abner Shimony

Abner Eliezer Shimony was an American physicist and philosopher.

Abner Shimony specialized in quantum theory and philosophy of science.

Abner Shimony authored many works and research on complementarity in quantum entanglement as well as multiparticle quantum interferometry, both relating to quantum coherence.

Abner Shimony authored research articles and books on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Abner Shimony received the 1996 Lakatos Prize for his work in philosophy of science.

Abner Shimony obtained his BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University in 1948, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950.

Abner Shimony acquired his second doctorate in physics from Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Eugene Wigner with a thesis titled Regression and Response in Thermodynamic Systems.

Abner Shimony taught philosophy of science at MIT from 1959 until 1968 in the school's Department of Humanities.

Abner Shimony is best known for his work in developing the CHSH inequality, an empirically testable form of the Bell inequality, known as Bell's theorem.

Abner Shimony later proposed a geometric measure of quantum entanglement and, along with Gregg Jaeger and Michael Horne, discovered two novel complementarity relations involving interferometric visibility in multiparticle quantum interferometry.

Abner Shimony is known for his inquiry into the question of the "peaceful coexistence" of quantum mechanics and special relativity.

Abner Shimony wrote several books and numerous research articles on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related topics.

Abner Shimony is credited with coining the phrase "passion at a distance" to characterize the various phenomena described by quantum correlations in 1984.

Abner Shimony served as president of the Philosophy of Science Association from 1995 to 1996.

Abner Shimony was married to the noted anthropologist Annemarie Anrod Abner Shimony, from 1951 until her death in 1995.