John Bell was an Irish physicist who famously disliked the Copenhagen interpretation and was reluctant to confront Niels Bohr about it when they were caught in a lift together at some point, but later in the 1960s developed a groundbreaking theorem.
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“[25:56] another maverick outsider in the 1960s was the Irish physicist John Bell. Now, John Bell famously didn't like the Copenhagen view...he was uh uh uh caught in a lift with the great Neils Boore..."I I just didn't have the courage to to to confront him"”
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