This paper makes a collective biographical profile of a sample of physicists who were
protagonists in the research on the foundations of quantum physics circa 1970. We study the
cases of Zeh, Bell, Clauser, Shimony, Wigner, Rosenfeld, d'Espagnat, Selleri, and DeWitt,
analyzing their training and early career, achievements, qualms with quantum mechanics,
motivations for such research, professional obstacles, attitude towards the Copenhagen
interpretation, and success and failures. Except for Rosenfeld, they were all dissidents …