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John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 9 July 1911, 19 July 1911
- Died
- 13 April 2008
- Place of birth
- Jacksonville
- Place of death
- Hightstown
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Wheeler
- Father
- Joseph L. Wheeler
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist, university teacher, non-fiction writer, astrophysicist
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Einstein Prize, Science Writing Award, Wolf Prize in Physics, Matteucci Medal, Oskar Klein Medal, Marcel Grossmann Award, Albert Einstein Medal, J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, Oersted Medal, Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, National Medal of Science, Franklin Medal
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- described by source
- John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008), Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity , Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler Addison Wesley Longman, New York, 2000. $37.33 (286 pp.). ISBN 0-201-38423-X, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- different from
- John Wheeler, John T. Wheeler
- doctoral advisor
- Karl Herzfeld
- doctoral student
- Jacob Bekenstein, Arthur Wightman, Richard Feynman, Hugh Everett III, Kip S. Thorne, Demetrios Christodoulou, Katharine Way, Robert Geroch, Fred Singer, B. Kent Harrison, Robert M. Wald, Dieter R. Brill
- educated at
- Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Rayen High School
- employer
- Princeton University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Leiden University, University of Texas at Austin, Leiden University
- Erdős number
- 3
- interested in
- theoretical physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- John Archibald Wheeler
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- Gravitation Theory and Gravitation Collapse, wormhole, Breit–Wheeler process, quantum foam, neutron moderator
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- quotation or excerpt
- Čas - to je prostě způsob, jakým příroda zajišťuje, aby se všechno neodehrálo najednou.
- student
- Jacob Bekenstein, Masami Wakano, Richard Feynman, Hugh Everett III, Kip S. Thorne, W. G. Unruh, Christopher Alan Fuchs
- student of
- Niels Bohr
- topic's main category
- Category:John Archibald Wheeler
- writing language
- English
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