In 1957, a young physicist from Princeton University published his first paper - it went virtually unnoticed - and then disappeared from academia. He worked as an engineer and analyst in the defence industry until he died in 1982, at the age of 51. But Hugh Everett's lasting contribution to science, some physicists argue, stands far out of proportion to his paper tally. His first paper, they say, provided a new way to understand one of the most enduring puzzles of quantum physics.
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