John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheelerwas an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler developed the concept of Breit–Wheeler process. He is best known for linking the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse already predicted early in the 20th century, for coining the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator",...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth9 July 1911
CountryUnited States of America
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.