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Hugh Everett

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Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.
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Joseph George Caldwell "An Historical Note on Lambda Corporation, Hugh Everett III, and John Nash."

 
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