Editing David Bohm (section)

== Youth and college ==
Bohm was born in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania|Wilkes-Barre]], [[Pennsylvania]], to a [[Hungarian Jewish]] immigrant father, Samuel Bohm,<ref>[https://archive.today/20150310071931/http://ed.augie.edu/~wjdelfs/381bohm.htm] – By the Numbers – David Bohm</ref> and a [[Lithuanian Jewish]] mother. He was raised mainly by his father, a furniture-store owner and assistant of the local rabbi. Despite being raised in a Jewish family, he became an [[agnosticism|agnostic]] in his teenage years.<ref>Peat 1997, p.21. "If he identified Jewish lore and customs with his father, then this was a way he would distance himself from Samuel. By the time he reached his late teens, he had become firmly agnostic."</ref> Bohm attended [[Pennsylvania State University#Early years|Pennsylvania State College]] (now Pennsylvania State University), graduating in 1939, and then the [[California Institute of Technology]], for one year. He then transferred to the theoretical physics group directed by [[Robert Oppenheimer]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] Radiation Laboratory, where he obtained his doctorate.

Bohm lived in the same neighborhood as some of Oppenheimer's other graduate students ([[Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz]], [[Joseph Weinberg]], and Max Friedman) and with them became increasingly involved in radical politics. He was active in communist and communist-backed organizations, including the [[Young Communist League, USA|Young Communist League]], the Campus Committee to Fight Conscription, and the [[American Peace Mobilization|Committee for Peace Mobilization]]. During his time at the Radiation Laboratory, Bohm was in a relationship with [[Betty Friedan]] and also helped to organize a local chapter of the [[Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians]], a small labor union affiliated to the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO).<ref name=Garber>{{cite book |last1=Garber |first1=Marjorie |last2=Walkowitz |first2=Rebecca |date=1995 |title=Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae2OAQAAQBAJ |location=New York|publisher=Routledge |pages=130–131 |isbn=978-1-135-20694-9 |author-link1=Marjorie Garber}}</ref>