John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics

Andrew Whitaker was awarded a BA in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford in 1967 and a PhD in the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance from the University of Nottingham in 1971. He lectured and carried out research at the University of Ulster until 1988, and since then at Queen's University Belfast, where he became a Professor in 1999. Much of his work over the last thirty years has been in the fundamental aspects of quantum theory, in particular the quantum Zeno effect and aspects of Bell's Theorem. He also has an interest in the history of science and has co-edited volumes on Kelvin, Maxwell and physicists of Ireland.

The presentation is rather fascinating and non-mathematical in nature, and some effort is made to provide a thorough but comprehensible account of any area of Bell's work, not limited to quantum theory... [the author] unveils a number of extremely valuable works on the study of accelerators, nuclear physics and the physics of elementary particles, which we now recognize to be widely neglected.

• 1: A tough start but a good one 2: The 1950s - Progress on All Fronts 3: The 1960s - The Year of Greatest Success 4: The 1970s - Interest Increases 5: Final Achievements but Final Tragedies 6: The Work Continues 7: Work of the Highest Calibre and a Fine Life