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John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II .
Apr 15, 2024 · John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.—died April 13, 2008, Hightstown, New Jersey) was a physicist, the first American involved in the theoretical development of the atomic bomb. He also originated a novel approach to the unified field theory and popularized the term black hole.
John Archibald Wheeler, 1911-2008. Over a long, productive scientific life, he was known for his drive to address big, overarching questions in physics, subjects which he liked to say merged with philosophical questions about the origin of matter, information and the universe. He was a young contemporary of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, was a ...
Apr 14, 2008 · The New York Times. By Dennis Overbye. April 14, 2008. John A. Wheeler, a visionary physicist and teacher who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission, gave black holes their name and...
Wheeler made a number of important contributions to physics, especially particle physics. In 1937 he introduced what is now known as the S-Matrix, which is now an indispensable tool for the study of particle physics. He was also one of the proponents of nuclear fission alongside Enrico Fermi and Niels Bohr.
Princeton NJ — John Archibald Wheeler, a legend in physics who coined the term “black hole” and whose myriad scientific contributions figured in many of the research advances of the 20th century, has died. Wheeler, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus at Princeton, was 96.
Apr 30, 2008 · The fertile imagination of John Archibald Wheeler, who died on 13 April aged 96, roamed from the properties of atomic nuclei to the physics of nuclear explosions; from the quantum mechanics of ...
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