Jeffrey Bub
Emeritus Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
jbub@umd.edu
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Jeffrey Bub (PhD, London) is a Distinguished University Professor and philosopher of physics with a special interest in the conceptual foundations of quantum theory. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific and scholarly journals and is the author of three books: Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates (Oxford University Press, 2016), Interpreting the Quantum World (Cambridge University Press, 1997; revised paperback edition, 1999), which won the prestigious Lakatos Award in 1998 for providing a unified reconstruction and systematic assessment of quantum mechanics, and The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Reidel, 1974). He has held numerous visiting positions, most recently (in 2011) as Templeton Research Fellow at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, University of Vienna. His current research is focused on quantum foundations and quantum information. He was awarded the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize in 2005 for his work in this area.