David Bohm in the 1940s: Science, Scientific Style and Political Engagement with Olival Freire Jr.

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July 18, 2020 – Infinite Potential: Exploring the Life and Work of David Bohm—Summer Series 2020: When David Bohm arrived in California in the early 1940s for graduate studies, he had already consolidated two intellectual trends which would characterize his whole life. First, he knew what kind of physics he enjoyed working on; although he was attracted to theoretical physics and had exhibited skills in mathematics, he had no patience for the solving-problem style of physics he had found at Caltech. Instead he looked for speculative and conceptual science. Second, Bohm was not only concerned with science, for him science…