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*** ,1911
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April 13, 2006 (94 years old)
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Cancer
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John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler is an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for the revival of interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to explain the basics of nuclear fission. In collaboration with Gregory Breit, Wheeler developed the concept of the Breit - Wheeler process. He is best known for having used the term "black hole" to refer to objects whose gravity collapsed as expected at the beginning of the 20th century, for having coined the term "quantum foam", "neutron regulators", "deep holes" And "it's bits", and make assumptions about "the one-electron universe". Wheeler received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University under Karl Herzfeld, and attended Breit and Bohr on a scholarship from the National Research Council. In 1939, he collaborated with Bohr to write a series of papers using the liquid-drop model to explain the mechanism of fission.
BornJuly 9, 1911, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
DiedApril 13, 2008, Hightstown, New Jersey, United States
CitizenshipUSA
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina, Princeton University, University of Texas at Austin
Alma materJohns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
ThesisTheory of the dispersion and absorption of helium (1933)
Doctoral studentsJacob Bekenstein, Claudio Bunster, Demetrios Christodoulou, Ignazio Ciufolini, Hugh Everett, Richard Feynman, Kenneth W. Ford, Robert W. Fuller, Robert Geroch, Bei-lok Hu, John R. Klauder, Bahram Mashhoon, Charles Misner, Gilbert Plass, Milton Plesset, Gerald Harris Rosen, Benjamin Schumacher, Kip Thorne, Jayme Tiomno, John S. Toll, Bill Unruh, Robert Wald, Katharine Way, Arthur Wightman
Known forBreit–Wheeler process, Wheeler–DeWitt equation, Popularizing the term "black hole", Nuclear fission, Geometrodynamics, General relativity, Unified field theory, Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory, Wheeler's delayed choice experiment, One-electron universe, Geon, S-matrix, Quantum foam, Coining the term "neutron moderator", Coining the term "superspace", Coining the term "wormhole", Lorentzian wormhole, "It from bit", Participatory anthropic principle
Notable awardsA. Cressy Morrison Prize (1945), Albert Einstein Award (1965), Enrico Fermi Award (1968), Franklin Medal (1969), National Medal of Science (1970), Oersted Medal (1983), J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1984), Albert Einstein Medal (1988), Matteucci Medal (1993), Wolf Prize in Physics (1997), Einstein Prize (APS) (2003)
SpouseJanette Hegner

About John Archibald Wheeler

Physicist John Archibald Wheeler was born in Florida, United States on July 9, 1911. He dies at the age of 94, on April 13, 2006.

Princeton University scientist who worked with Neils Bohr and Physicist Albert Einstein on atomic theory and helped create the atomic weapon as part of the Manhattan Project. He is also credited with coining terms such as quantum foam and wormhole, as well as the phrase"it from bit".

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John Archibald Wheeler before becoming famous

John Archibald Wheeler was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1911 is also the year of Pig (豬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Reading scientific papers aroused his interest in study, and he later earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Achievement of John Archibald Wheeler

In addition to his work on atomic theory, he investigated the effects of gravitational collapse in stars and coined the term"black hole".

John Archibald Wheeler's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where both of his parents were librarians.

John Archibald Wheeler Collabed with

He, Physicist Niels Bohr, and Enrico Fermi were the first to suggest the concept of nuclear fission, which explained how the splitting of atomic particles released enormous amounts of energy, paving the way for the development of nuclear weapons.

Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) (Physicist)
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

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