Nico van Kampen
(1921-2013 )
Nico van Kampen was a Dutch theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
He was a strong defender of quantum mechanics against attempts to "interpret" it by adding quantities or functions that make it easier to understand in familiar classical terms. He wrote "The difficulty is that the authors are unable to adjust their way of thinking—and speaking—to the fact that phenomena on the microscopic scale look different from what we are accustomed to in ordinary life."
In 1988. van Kampen proposed ten theorems about measurements in quantum mechanics, focused on the question "How exactly does the wave function Ψ relate to the phenomena that I can observe and measure?" Open "
Ten Theorems."
A decade later his 2008 article in the
American Journal of Physics, "
The Scandal in Quantum Mechanics," generated strong responses.
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