H. Dieter Zeh

H. Dieter Zeh
Born	(1932-05-08)8 May 1932 Braunschweig, Free State of Brunswick
Died	15 April 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 85) Freudenstadt, Baden-Württemberg
Nationality	German
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Heidelberg

Heinz-Dieter Zeh (German: [tseː]; 8 May 1932 – 15 April 2018), usually referred to as H. Dieter Zeh, was a professor (later professor emeritus) of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist.

Work

Zeh was one of the developers of the many-minds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the discoverer of decoherence, first described in his seminal 1970 paper.

Bibliography

• The Problem Of Conscious Observation In Quantum Mechanical Description (June, 2000).
• The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time, 2001, ISBN 3-540-42081-9
• Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory, 2003, ISBN 3-540-00390-8 (with Erich Joos, Claus Kiefer, Domenico Giulini, Joachim Kupsch, Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu)
• "On the interpretation of measurement in quantum theory", 1970, Foundations of Physics, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 69–76

See also

• Epistemological Letters

External links

• Zeh's old homepage
• Obituary for H. Dieter Zeh