H. Dieter Zeh

Heinz-Dieter Zeh (German: [tseː]; born 8 May 1932 in Braunschweig, Germany), usually referred to as H. Dieter Zeh, is a professor emeritus of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist.

Work

Zeh is 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 homepage