John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler
Wheeler before the Hermann Weyl-Conference 1985 in Kiel, Germany
Born	(1911-07-09)July 9, 1911 Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Died	April 13, 2008(2008-04-13) (aged 96) Hightstown, New Jersey, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
Known for	Breit–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
Spouse	Janette Hegner
Awards	A. 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)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of North Carolina Princeton University University of Texas at Austin
Thesis	Theory of the dispersion and absorption of helium (1933)
Doctoral advisor	Karl Herzfeld
Doctoral students	Jacob Bekenstein Claudio Bunster Demetrios Christodoulou Ignazio Ciufolini Hugh Everett Richard Feynman Kenneth W. Ford Robert W. Fuller Robert Geroch 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

John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was known for his interest in general relativity in the United States. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission.

He is best known for using the term "black hole" and for inventing the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit", and for hypothesizing the "one-electron universe".^[1]

On April 13, 2008, Wheeler died of pneumonia at the age of 96 in Hightstown, New Jersey.^[2]

1. ↑ Wheeler, John Archibald; Ford, Kenneth (1998). Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-04642-7.
2. ↑ Overbye, Dennis (April 14, 2008). "John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term 'Black Hole', Is Dead at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2008.