Introduction: Living Through Cold War Storms, Attempting to Understand the Quantum

Abstract

Biographies are usually of interest because we may learn from them about the life of a person, their singularities in the plethora of humankind, as well as about the times in which the person lived. This is the case of David Joseph Bohm, a physicist who was born in the US, in 1917, educated there, lived in Brazil, Israel and the UK where he passed away in 1992. He was an outstanding theoretical physicist with achievements in standard science and breakthroughs in the way we obtain predictions and interpret the most successful physical theory, the quantum theory.