18-April-2008, 02:28 PM
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John Wheeler dies
Not to take away from Stick's thread about Lorenz, but I also heard John Wheeler just passed away.
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HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - Physicist John A. Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.
Wheeler, for many years a professor at Princeton University, died of pneumonia Sunday at his home in Hightstown, said his daughter, Alison Wheeler Lahnston.
Wheeler rubbed elbows with colossal figures in science such as Albert Einstein and Danish scientist Niels Bohr, with whom Wheeler worked in the 1930s and ’40s.
"For me, he was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing," Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Max Tegmark told The New York Times [NYT].
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I heard him speak about 20 years ago - wonderful speaker. A big loss.
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