was just reading in a book yesterday about the Bohmian Quantum Mechanics,
and the author of one chapter started with introducing the reader to a
biologist earlier this century - Paul Kammerer. For this Bohmian defender
of quantum mechanics the Kammerer case represented an example of
"the scientific community's dismissing a challenging theoretical
possibility without even seriously considering the evidence for it"
Kammerer had problems with the Darwinism of the day and defended a kind
of Lamarckian theory of inheritance.
The non-acceptance of Kammerer's viewpoints in the scientific community
drove him in the end to suicide - according to this writer.
Is there anyone out there - biologists or science historians that can
give me more information about this Kammerer, eventually direct me to
some material to read about him.
For the physicists out there, the author quoted is Notre Dame phycisist
James Cushing and the quote is from the book
"Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An appraisal"
ed. James Cushing, Arthur Fine and Sheldon Goldstein, 1996
Best regards from Inge
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