Dr Stapp and Patrick Heelan

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With Henry Stapp and Father Patrick Heelan, SJ: Prague

Dr. Henry Stapp is a Mathematical physicist and author (Quantum Theory and Free Will) known for his work in quantum mechanics. Dr. Stapp worked with Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Father Patrick Heelan, SJ, was an Irish Jesuit priest, physicist, philosopher of science and author (The Observable: Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics). As a physicist, Father Heelan worked with Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg. Father Heelan also served as Vice President of Georgetown University.

Karl worked extensively with Professor Stapp and Father Heelan, and dined weekly with the latter.