Scientists & Researchers
John von Neumann
1943–1957
Hungarian-American polymath (mathematics, computing, game theory) and fellow emigre Martian alongside Teller. Manhattan Project scientist, architect of the modern computer, AEC Commissioner, and a principal Cold-War defense-science strategist (mutual assured destruction). A central figure of the weapons-and-computing establishment. Two of his ideas reach directly into this map: his 1932 mathematical formulation of quantum measurement placed the wave-function "collapse" at the act of observation - the seed of the consciousness-causes-collapse interpretation - and his theory of self-replicating automata became the basis of the "von Neumann probe," now a leading hypothesis for what UAP might be.
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his 1932 measurement formalism located the collapse at observation
Source: von Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1932)
an early RAND consultant on game theory and nuclear strategy
Source: RAND Corporation history; von Neumann biography
lifelong friends and collaborators; fellow Hungarian Martians
Source: history of science; the Martians
his self-replicating automata theory gave rise to the concept
Source: von Neumann, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Manhattan Project scientist there
Source: Wikipedia: John von Neumann
colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Source: Institute for Advanced Study history
colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Source: Institute for Advanced Study; Dyson/von Neumann biographies
colleagues at the IAS, which Oppenheimer directed
Source: Institute for Advanced Study history
fellow Hungarian-emigre Martian; Manhattan Project and Cold-War defense-science colleagues
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller