Editing Copenhagen interpretation (section)

==Acceptance among physicists==
During the 1930s and 1940s, views about quantum mechanics attributed to Bohr and emphasizing complementarity became commonplace among physicists. Textbooks of the time generally maintained the principle that the numerical value of a physical quantity is not meaningful or does not exist until it is measured.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Jammer|first=Max|title=The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=1974|isbn=0-471-43958-4|author-link=Max Jammer}}</ref>{{rp|248}} Prominent physicists associated with Copenhagen-type interpretations have included [[Lev Landau]],<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Mermin|first=N. David|author-link=N. David Mermin|date=2019-01-01|title=Making better sense of quantum mechanics|journal=[[Reports on Progress in Physics]]|volume=82|issue=1|pages=012002|arxiv=1809.01639|bibcode=2019RPPh...82a2002M|doi=10.1088/1361-6633/aae2c6|pmid=30232960|s2cid=52299438|issn=0034-4885}}</ref> [[Wolfgang Pauli]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Rudolf Peierls]],<ref name="Peierls">{{Cite journal|last=Peierls|first=Rudolf|author-link=Rudolf Peierls|date=1991|title=In defence of "measurement"|journal=[[Physics World]]|language=en|volume=4|issue=1|pages=19–21|doi=10.1088/2058-7058/4/1/19|issn=2058-7058}}</ref> [[Asher Peres]],<ref name=":2" /> [[Léon Rosenfeld]],<ref name="camilleri2015" /> and [[Ray Streater]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|last=Streater|first=R. F.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/185022108|title=Lost causes in and beyond physics|date=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-540-36582-2|location=Berlin|oclc=185022108|author-link=Ray Streater}}</ref>

Throughout much of the 20th century, the Copenhagen tradition had overwhelming acceptance among physicists.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> According to a very informal poll (some people voted for multiple interpretations) conducted at a quantum mechanics conference in 1997,<ref>{{cite journal |first=Max |last=Tegmark |title=The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Many Worlds or Many Words? |year=1998 |pages=855–862 |volume=46 |journal=Fortschritte der Physik |arxiv=quant-ph/9709032 |doi=10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(199811)46:6/8<855::AID-PROP855>3.0.CO;2-Q |issue=6–8|bibcode = 1998ForPh..46..855T |s2cid=212466 }}</ref> the Copenhagen interpretation remained the most widely accepted label that physicists applied to their own views. A similar result was found in a poll conducted in 2011.<ref name=":8">{{cite journal |first1=M. |last1=Schlosshauer |first2=J. |last2=Kofler |first3=A. |last3=Zeilinger |author-link3=Anton Zeilinger |title=A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics |year=2013 |pages=222–230 |volume=44 |issue=3 |journal=[[Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics]] |arxiv=1301.1069 |doi=10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.04.004|bibcode=2013SHPMP..44..222S |s2cid=55537196 }}</ref>