Carlo Rovelli was born on May 3,1956 and is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France.
17 Facts About Carlo Rovelli
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Carlo Rovelli is currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University.
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Carlo Rovelli works mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of loop quantum gravity theory.
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Carlo Rovelli has worked in the history and philosophy of science.
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Carlo Rovelli was born in Verona, Italy, on 3 May 1956.
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Carlo Rovelli attended the Liceo Classico Scipione Maffei in Verona.
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Carlo Rovelli was involved with the free political radio stations Radio Alice in Bologna and Radio Anguana in Verona, which he helped found.
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Carlo Rovelli refused military service, which was compulsory in Italy at the time, and was therefore briefly detained in 1977.
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Carlo Rovelli held postdoctoral positions at the University of Rome, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, and Yale University.
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Carlo Rovelli was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh from 1990 to 2000, where he was affiliated with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
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In 1994, Carlo Rovelli introduced the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on the idea that the quantum state of a system must always be interpreted relative to another physical system.
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Carlo Rovelli has expressed the main idea of relational quantum mechanics in the popular book Helgoland.
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Carlo Rovelli has written a book on the Greek philosopher Anaximander, published in France, Italy, US and Brazil.
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For Carlo Rovelli, science is a continuous process of exploring novel possible views of the world; this happens via a "learned rebellion", which always builds and relies on previous knowledge but at the same time continuously questions aspects of this received knowledge.
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Carlo Rovelli discussed his religious views in several articles and in his book on Anaximander.
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Carlo Rovelli has written more than 200 scientific articles published in international journals.
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Carlo Rovelli has published two monographs on loop quantum gravity and several popular science books.