Robert Sobel (n. 19 februarie1931, Bronx, New York — d. 2 iunie1999) a fost un profesor american de istorie la Universitatea Hofstra și un bine-cunoscut scriitor prolific de istoria afacerilor. Este cunoscut în occident mai ales pentru romanul de ficțiune din 1973 „For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga”[1].
Sobel, Robert (). The Origins of Interventionism: The United States and the Russo-Finnish War. New York: Bookman Associates.
Sobel, Robert (). The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market. New York: Free Press.
Sobel, Robert (). The French Revolution. New York: Ardmore Press.
Sobel, Robert (). The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920's. New York: Norton.
Sobel, Robert (). Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters. New York: Macmillan.
Sobel, Robert (). The Automobile Makers. New York: Putnam.
Sobel, Robert (). The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange. New York: Macmillan.
Sobel, Robert (). Conquest And Conscience: The 1840's. New York: Crowell. ISBN0-690-20939-8.
Sobel, Robert (). Biographical directory of the United States executive branch, 1774–1971. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co. ISBN0-837-15173-2.
Sobel, Robert (). The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914–1970. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN0-837-16404-4.
Sobel, Robert (). The Great Boom 1950–2000: How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society. New York: St.Martin's Press. ISBN0-312-20890-1.
Sobel, Robert (). Crashes, Booms, Panics and Government Regulation. Ashland, Or.: Blackstone Audiobooks. ISBN0-786-16489-1.
^Bryce Seligman DeWitt, Quantum Mechanics and Reality: Could the solution to the dilemma of indeterminism be a universe in which all possible outcomes of an experiment actually occur?, Physics Today,23(9) pp 30-40 (1970) "“every quantum transition taking place on every star, in every galaxy, in every remote corner of the universe is splitting our local world on earth into myriads of copies of itself.”"also April 1971 letters followup