John Stewart Bell

John Stewart Bell (28 June 1928 – 1 October 1990) was a Northern Irish physicist who made great contributions to quantum physics, and especially to the question of what Heisenberg's uncertainty principle really tells us about the world.

• Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland
• B.S.: Queen's University of Belfast, 1948
• Ph.D.: University of Birmingham, 1956

• Paper entitled "On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox" introduced Bell's theorem, 1964 (Direct download from:

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• "On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics" discussed the supposed existence of hidden variables, 1966. (Direct download from http://www.mugur-schachter.net/docsupload/autresPublications/autresPublications_doc2.pdf)