Emilio Santos Corchero, born 7 October 1935 ( San Vicente de Alcantara,

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at the Universities of Costa Rica (1964–68),

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(1968-76) and

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(Spain) (1976-). In the year 1998 he received the Medal of the Spanish Society of Physics. His

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(about 100 articles in

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) has been mainly devoted to develop a stochastic

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that maintains strict causality (i. e. supporting

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’s opinion that " God does not play dice"). In that interpretation the dispersion of results in the measurements is due to lack of control of all relevant factors rather than to a lack of causality (as many

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believe). For a summary see

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, 20, 357-386 (2015). An application has been the study of " parametric down conversion" experiments using the

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representation of

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; see

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D 13, 109-119 (2001) (in collaboration with A. Casado, T. W. Marshall and R. Risco-Delgado) and references therein. A related subject of interest has been the meaning of the Bell inequalities and the requirements for their empirical tests to be reliable. See

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98A, 5-9 (1983) (in collaboration with F. Selleri and T. W. Marshall),

115A, 363-365 (1986), Physical Review A 46, 3646-3656 (1992),

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42, 2545-2555 (2003). The stochastic interpretation rests upon the assumption that the

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consists of real fields. Their fluctuations might explain the "

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" recently discovered in

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; see

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, 332, 423-435 (2011). Another subject of interest has been the study of relativistic stars in order to see whether some modifications of

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(possibly of quantum origin) might prevent the collapse to singularities (" black holes"); see Astrophysics and Space Science 341, 411-416 (2012). En 2022 Santos published the book ''Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics'',
Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. summing up his scientific career and proposing that some of the apparent violations of local realism in quantum phenomena admit a realistic explanation by treating the vacuum fields as real entities.

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