David Bohm was a British (American-born) physicist, best known for his causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics (Bohmian mechanics).
He can also be regarded as a philosopher, if not an iconoclast, who pondered on reality, consciousness and other related questions, from the point of view of quantum physics.
Bohm was largely ignored and silenced during his lifetime, even by people (such as Oppenheimer) whom he had supported himself. It appears that Oppenheimer, not only silenced him but also denounced him for communist sympathies, in order to alleviate his own problems.[1] In Princeton, Bohm was fired by the president of the university, Harold Dodds, a political scientist by training. He went in exile, lost his citizenship, worked in Brazil and Israel until he settled in England, where he acquired his new nationality.
He is a strange character, who seems to have attracted a weird cult following, such as the infinite potential fringe organization, which purportedly realized a movie, which is, however, not accessible, even if you subscribe to their viewing list. The name is the same as the biography by F. Peat [1].
The ostracization of Bohm was despite his long list of off-the-beaten-track achievements. Indeed, besides his pilot-wave interpretation—which even comes with an eponymous type of mechanics (Bohmian mechanics)—he is responsible for (in order of recognition and impact):
He has written a long list of books, in addition to conventional books on quantum theory and relativity. His book on quantum theory was to represent the orthoxical Copenhagen interpretation but after writing the book, he thought this was unclear and started to dig further into the problem of interpretation.[2] Some of his other books should definitely be checked: