Elizabeth Rauscher | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 March 1937 Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Died | 3 July 2019 (aged 82) |
| Education | BS (chemistry and physics) MS (nuclear physics) 1965 PhD (nuclear physics) 1978 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, Parapsychologist |
| Known for | Co-founded the Berkeley Fundamental Fysiks Group |
| Spouse | William van Bise |
Elizabeth A. Rauscher (1937–2019) was an American physicist and parapsychologist. She was born in Berkeley, California on March 18, 1937.[1] She died on July 3, 2019 (aged 82).
She was a former researcher with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Stanford Research Institute, and NASA.[2]
In 1975 Rauscher co-founded the Berkeley Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists who met weekly to discuss quantum mysticism and the philosophy of quantum physics. David Kaiser argued in his book, How the Hippies Saved Physics that this group helped to nurture ideas which were unpopular at the time within the physics community, but which later, in part, formed the basis of quantum information science.[3]
Rauscher had an interest in psychic healing and faith healing and other paranormal claims.
- ^ Elizabeth Valerie Ann Rauscher, PhD. 1937-2019
- ^ Pedler, Kit. Mind Over Matter. Taylor & Francis, 1981, p. 48.
- ^
Kaiser, David. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture and the Quantum Revival. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, p. xv–xvii.
- Also see Kaiser, David. "Lecture: How the Hippies Saved Physics", WGBH PBS, April 28, 2010, from 38:00 mins.
- Zukav, Gary. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics. HarperOne, 2001 (first published 1979), p. x.
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