David Bohm AKA David Joseph Bohm Born: 20-Dec-1917 Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, PA Died: 29-Oct-1992 Location of death: London, England Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist, Philosopher Nationality: United States Executive summary: Particle physicist Studied physics under Robert Oppenheimer. Later a follower of J. Krishnamurti. Electroshock therapy.
Father: (furniture store owner) Wife: Saral Bohm
University: BS, Pennsylvania State College (1939) University: California Institute of Technology University: PhD Physics, UC Berkeley (1943) Professor: Princeton University (1947-51) Professor: University of Sao Paulo (1951-55) Scholar: University of Bristol Professor: Birkbeck College (1961-92)
Royal Society 1990 Contempt of Congress 1950, acquitted May-1951 Took the Fifth Shock Treatment Heart Attack 1991 Heart Bypass Operation triple Austrian Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
Risk Factors: Depression
Is the subject of books:
Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, 1996, BY: F. David Peat
Author of books:
The Special Theory of Relativity (1965) Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) The Ending of Time (1985, with J. Krishnamurti) The Future of Humanity: A Conversation (1986, with J. Krishnamurti) Causality and Chance in Modern Physics (1987) Science, Order, and Creativity (1987, with F. David Peat) Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political, and Environmental Crises Facing Our World (1991, with Mark Edwards)
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