The CV given in the link you provide contains a few - ah - interesting lines that make me go for crank:

• 1975: Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Dartmouth College
  
• 1976: Masters of Arts Harvard University
  
• 1981: Ph. D. in physics Harvard University where he studied under Howard Georgi,
  
• 1979-1995:Publishes ([3]) a number of peer-reviewed papers in particle physics dealing with supersymmetry and grand unification theory. This includes an article presenting the first successful superstring theory, the E8 x E8 heterotic superstring theory, which he conceived and published in cooperation with the CERN researchers John Ellis and D.V. Nanopoulus.
  
• 1982: Researcher at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics) in Switzerland
  
• 1983-1984: SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).
  
• 1984: Moves to Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa and founded a graduate program in Theoretical Physics.
  
• 1992: Is selected as Presidential Candidate by the Natural Law Party in the USA
  
• 1992: Receives the Kilby Award, for scientists who have made "major contributions to society through their applied research in the fields of science and technology". The award states it is for "a scientist in the tradition of Einstein, Jeans, Bohr and Eddington".
  
• 1994: Awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for his experimental conclusion from a rigorous scientific study, published in the peer review journal "Social Indicators Reserarch", that found that 4,000 practicitioners of the TM-Sidhi program who gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Summer, caused a 23.3 percent decrease in crime in that city during an 8 week period. This annual award is for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
  
• 1994: Last published Physics research.
  
• 1999: Published a study (made 1994) on the preventive effect of TM-Sidhi program on crime in Washington, D.C.. See "Further reading" below.
  

When I read that CV, I think Michael Behe. It reads like the CV of a real scientist who became enamoured with woo-woo somewhen in the early 90s.

In general, however, I could care less about where Chopra - or anyone else - learns their quantum mechanics. If they can solve the Schrödinger equation, they could have learned it from David Letterman, for all I care. Touting his teacher(s) reeks of credentialism and argument from authority.

- Jake

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