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Science 24 March 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5461, pp. 2166 - 2167
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5461.2166
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Bohr the Innovator? Or Bohr the Intimidator?

A review by Daniel Greenberger

Quantum Dialog The Making of a Revolution
Mara Beller
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999. 381 pp. $35, £24.50. ISBN 0-226-04181-6.

Beller argues that the success of the Copenhagen interpretation was due primarily to intimidation and abuse of authority by Bohr and his collaborators. Our reviewer believes the author's biases led her to overlook the important question of how so many people have convinced themselves that one viable interpretation was actually unique and unassailable.
The author is in the Department of Physics, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. E-mail: greenbgr{at}scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu

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