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person1950s-2010s

Mario Castagnino

Disciplines:
physics
philosophy of science/philosophy of physics

Summary

Argentinian physicist who worked on quantum decoherence, the arrow of time, and the foundations of statistical mechanics.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the self-induced decoherence approach to quantum mechanics — arguing that decoherence arises from the structure of the algebra of observables without an external environment.

Notable Works & Achievements

Self-Induced Decoherence

Historical Influences

Ilya Prigogine

Intellectual Lineage

Philosophy of Physics

Contemporaries & Peers

Olimpia Lombardi

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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