"In recent years the debate on these ideas has reopened, and there are some who question what they call "the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics"—as if there existed more than one possible interpretation of the theory."
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Rudolf Peierls, Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1979), Ch. 1. General Quantum Mechanics
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