Art Hobson
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Professor Emeritus
Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1983); University of California, Davis (1995)
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Art Hobson is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His scholarly work spans a range of physics topics, including statistical mechanics, quantum physics, and the history of science. He has authored several books, such as "Concepts in statistical mechanics" (1971), "Physics: Concepts and Connections" (1995), and "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" (1996). His more recent publications address pedagogical approaches in physics education, including "The Surprising Effectiveness of College Scientific Literacy Courses" (2008) and "Teaching Quantum Physics Without Paradoxes" (2007). Hobson's research interests also extend to the conceptual underpinnings of physics, as seen in his work "There are no particles, there are only fields" (2013). His academic contributions are reflected in a h-index of 15, with 147 total publications and 899 citations.
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- h-index: 15
- Publications: 151
- Citations: 903
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Professor Emeritus 1964–presentUniversity of Arkansas Fayetteville Physics ORCID
Selected Publications
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Resolution of the problem of definite outcomes (2025)
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Solving the Detection Problem (2024)
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Entanglement, Nonlocality, and SR (2024)
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Quanta and Their States (2024)
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Fields and Their Quanta (2024)
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The Classical (Non-quantized) EM Field (2024)
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Quantum Foundations: Conclusions (2024)
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Quantum Confusion: Foundations Are in Risky Disarray (2024)
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More About Superpositions (2024)
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A Few Interpretations (2024)
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Quantum Randomness (2024)
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There Are no Particles, There Are Only Quantized Fields (2024)
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The Fundamental Theory: Relativistic Quantum Fields (2024)
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More on the quantum measurement problem (2022)
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Entanglement and the Measurement Problem (2022)
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