Jean Pierre Vigier
Jean Pierre Vigier | |
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| Born | January 16, 1920 Paris, France |
| Died | May 4, 2004 Paris, France |
| Residence | Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics, Cold Fusion, foundations of physics |
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| Fields | Physicist |
Jean-Pierre Vigier (January 16, 1920 – May 4, 2004) was a French theoretical physicist known for his work on the foundations of physics, and in particular for his stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics — a causal, hidden-variable approach in the tradition of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm.
Career
Vigier earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Geneva in 1946 and served briefly as a member of the French Atomic Commission alongside Frédéric Joliot-Curie. In 1948 he was appointed assistant to Louis de Broglie (Nobel Prize 1929, for the discovery of the wave nature of particles), a position he held until de Broglie's retirement in 1962, although their collaboration continued for another ten years.
He was the author of more than 200 scientific papers, and co-authored and edited a number of books and conference proceedings. He served on the editorial board of Physics Letters A, and was one of the most vocal proponents of the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics. He died in Paris on May 4, 2004.
Articles
- "New Hydrogen Energies in Specially Structured Dense Media: Capillary Chemistry and Capillary Fusion", in Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, Frontiers of Cold Fusion, 1992. Nagoya Japan: Universal Academy Press, Inc., Tokyo, Japan.
- "New Hydrogen (Deuterium) Bohr Orbits in Quantum Chemistry and Cold Fusion Processes"' in International Symposium on Cold Fusion and Advanced Energy Sources, 1994. Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus: Fusion Information Center, Salt Lake City.
- "On Cathodically Polarized Pd/D Systems", Phys. Lett. A, 1996. 221: p. 138.
Abstracts
- 2006 - "Interactions of Internal Inertial and Phase Space Motions of Extended Particle Elements Moving in Dirac's Real ?Aether? Model"
- 2002 - "Experimental Repeal of the Speed Limit for Gravitational, Electrodynamic, and Quantum Field Interactions"
- 1997 - "Relativistic Interpretation (with Non-Zero Photon Mass) of the Small Ether Drift Velocity Detected by Michelson, Morley and Miller" (Read in full)
- 1990 - "Spatial Fluctuation of the Hubble "Constant"" (Read in full)
Books
- 2005 - "Beyond The Standard Model: Searching For Unity In Physics (Proceedings of the Paris Symposium Honoring the 83rd Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier)" (Read in full)
- 2002 - "Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale (Fundamental Theories of Physics)" (Read in full)
- 2002 - "The Enigmatic Photon - Volume 2: Non-Abelian Electrodynamics" (Read in full)
- 2002 - "The Enigmatic Photon - Volume 3: Theory and Practice of the B(3) Field" (Read in full)
- 2002 - "The Enigmatic Photon - Volume 4: New Directions" (Read in full)
- 2000 - "Jean-Pierre Vigier and the Stochastic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" (Read in full)
- 1998 - "Causality and Locality in Modern Physics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)" (Read in full)
- 1998 - "The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light (Fundamental Theories of Physics)" (Read in full)
- 1994 - "The Enigmatic Photon - Volume 1: The Field B3" (Read in full)