Abner Shimony (March 10, 1928 – August 8, 2015)

Ph.D. Philosophy from Yale University, 1953, Supervisor: Rudolf Carnap
PhD, physics from Princeton University, 1962, Supervisor, Eugene Wigner
Thesis: Regression and Response in Thermodynamic Systems.

I got to know Abner Shimony through the lecture series known as the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science (started by Robert S. Cohen and Marx Wartofsky).

Wikipedia: “Shimony is best known for his work in developing the CHSH inequality,^[3] an empirically testable form of the Bell inequality, also known as Bell’s theorem. He later proposed a geometric measure of quantum entanglement and, along with Gregg Jaeger and Michael Horne, discovered two novel complementarity relations involving interferometric visibility in multiparticle quantum interferometry.

“He is also known for his inquiry into the question of the “peaceful coexistence” of quantum mechanics and special relativity. He wrote several books and numerous research articles on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related topics. Shimony is credited with coining the phrase “passion at a distance” to characterize the various phenomena described by quantum correlations in 1984.^[4]

“In 1996 he was awarded the Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science for the two-volume collection of papers, The Search for a Naturalistic World View, spanning his career up until 1992. He served as president of the Philosophy of Science Association from 1995 to 1996.”