Jeffrey Bub (born 1942) is a physicist and philosopher of physics, and Distinguished Professor[1] in the department of philosophy, the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[2] He obtained his bachelor's degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Cape Town.
[3] Bub obtained his PhD in Mathematical Physics from London University in 1966.
In 1998, his book Interpreting the Quantum World won the Lakatos Award.
In 2010, he published an argument that the famous work of John Stewart Bell (and, thus, Grete Hermann) had misconstrued John von Neumann's no hidden variables proof of the impossibility of hidden variables in quantum mechanics.