Peter Henri Bortoft (1938 – 29 December 2012)[1] was a British independent researcher and teacher, lecturer and writer on physics and the philosophy of science.
He is best known for his work The Wholeness of Nature, considered a relevant and original recent interpretation of Goethean science.
Bortoft completed his studies at the University of Hull,[4] and then performed postgraduate research on the foundations of quantum physics at Birkbeck College, where theoretical physicist David Bohm introduced him to the problem of wholeness in quantum theory.
Those efforts were published in Systematics: The Journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of History, Philosophy and the Sciences, listed below.
He held numerous lectures and seminars in Great Britain and the United States on the scientific work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and on the development of modern science.