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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...
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  • of relativity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. It was originally published by W. H. Freeman and Company in 1973...
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    The Wheeler–DeWitt equation for theoretical physics and applied mathematics, is a field equation attributed to John Archibald Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt...
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  • physics from Princeton University in 1951. His doctoral advisor was John Archibald Wheeler. He was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University and then...
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    Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment describes a family of thought experiments in quantum physics proposed by John Archibald Wheeler, with the most prominent...
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  • "black hole" was coined decades later, in the fall of 1967, by John Archibald Wheeler at a conference held by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies...
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  • named after its originators, the physicists, Richard Feynman, and John Archibald Wheeler, is a theory of electrodynamics based on a relativistic correct...
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  • John Archibald Wheeler, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 34, ISBN 9789048137350 Kip S. Thorne, ed. (October 28, 1985), "John Archibald Wheeler:...
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  • so-called principle of psycho-physical parallelism. Eugene Wigner and John Archibald Wheeler take issue with this stance. Wigner wrote: The state vector of my...
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  • (by emitting gravitational and electromagnetic waves). Physicist John Archibald Wheeler expressed this idea with the phrase "black holes have no hair",...
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  • "one-dimensional tubes" instead). American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler (inspired by Weyl's work) coined the term "wormhole" in a 1957 paper...
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  • American actor John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008), American theoretical physicist Archibald Cox (1912–2004), U.S. Solicitor General Archibald David Stirling...
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  • Bryce DeWitt: formulated the Wheeler–DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe with John Archibald Wheeler. Bianca Dittrich: mathematical...
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  • symmetries. The violation of conservation of baryon number led John Archibald Wheeler to speculate on a principle of mutability for all physical properties...
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  • have been depicted in fiction since before the term was coined by John Archibald Wheeler in the late 1960s. Black holes have been depicted with varying degrees...
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    outer event horizon. Its name was proposed by Remo Ruffini and John Archibald Wheeler during the Les Houches lectures in 1971 and is derived from the...
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  • Hugh Everett III (category St. John's College High School alumni)
    would (much) later make him famous. He switched thesis advisor to John Archibald Wheeler sometime in 1955, wrote a couple of short papers on quantum theory...
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    the Scattering Matrix or S-Matrix, introduced and developed by John Archibald Wheeler and Werner Heisenberg. Scattering is quantified using many different...
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  • collaborated with the relativist John Archibald Wheeler on an introductory text on special relativity, which began with Wheeler's relativity lectures to an honors...
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  • known as the participatory anthropic principle, articulated by John Archibald Wheeler, suggests on the basis of quantum mechanics that the universe, as...
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    PhD from Princeton University in 1965 under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler with a doctoral dissertation entitled "Geometrodynamics of Cylindrical...
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    Feynman received a PhD from Princeton in 1942; his thesis advisor was John Archibald Wheeler. In his doctoral thesis entitled "The Principle of Least Action...
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  • Investigations John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008), American theoretical physicist John Oliver Wheeler (1924–2015), Canadian geologist John Wheeler (Kent cricketer)...
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  • uniformly accepted method of distinguishing Black Holes by origin. John Archibald Wheeler's 1955 Physical Review paper entitled "Geons" refers to the kugelblitz...
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  • Bibcode:1949RvMP...21..378R. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.21.378. Taylor, Edwin F.; John Archibald Wheeler (1992). Spacetime physics: Introduction to Special Relativity (2nd ed...
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  • two atoms of positronium. It was predicted to exist in 1946 by John Archibald Wheeler, and subsequently studied theoretically, but was not observed until...
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  • degree from Princeton University in 1967 under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler, with a thesis on Singularities in the spacetime of general relativity:...
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    PhD in 1959 from Princeton University where he was a student of John Archibald Wheeler. A former head of the Theoretical Physics and Solid State Spectroscopy...
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  • Hooton Taylor, Jr. 1990: Roger Penrose 1989: Markus Fierz 1988: John Archibald Wheeler 1987: Jeanne Hersch 1986: Rudolf Mössbauer 1985: Edward Witten 1984:...
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    perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole, named after Tullio Regge, John Archibald Wheeler and Frank J. Zerilli. The perturbations of a Schwarzchild metric...
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