caption death_date death_place religion birth_place citizenship image_size nationality footnotes field birth_date residence image article_title name
hugh everett in 1964 19 july 1982 mclean , virginia , u.s. none -lrb- atheist -rrb- washington , d.c. , u.s. united states 270px american father of mark oliver everett physics 11 november 1930 united states hugh-everett . jpg hugh everett iii
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hugh everett iii

hugh everett iii -lrb- november 11 , 1930 -- july 19 , 1982 -rrb- was an american physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation -lrb- mwi -rrb- of quantum physics , which he termed his `` relative state '' formulation .
discouraged by the scorn of other physicists for mwi , everett ended his physics career after completing his ph.d. .
afterwards , he developed the use of generalized lagrange multipliers for operations research and applied this commercially as a defense analyst and a consultant .
he was married to nancy everett née gore .
they had two children : elizabeth everett and mark oliver everett , who became frontman of the musical band eels .
