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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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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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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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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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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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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Oppenheimer-Snyder paper to his "golden list" of classic papers. John Archibald Wheeler was initially an opponent of the model until the late 1950s, when...
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"one-dimensional tubes" instead). American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler (inspired by Weyl's work) coined the term "wormhole".[citation needed]...
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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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Investigations John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008), American theoretical physicist John Oliver Wheeler (1924–2015), Canadian geologist John Wheeler (Kent cricketer)...
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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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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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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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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 Ancient...
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of Texas at Austin, where his advisers were Richard Matzner and John Archibald Wheeler. Schumacher, Benjamin (1995-04-01). "Quantum coding". Physical Review...
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library service and the nation. Wheeler's son was physicist John Archibald Wheeler. He was married to Mabel Wheeler, with whom he had three other children:...
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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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Princeton University in 1964 and 1965 under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler with a doctoral dissertation entitled "Geometrodynamics of Cylindrical...
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physics from Princeton University in 1972, under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler. His doctoral dissertation was titled Nonspherical Gravitational...
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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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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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(1971) from Princeton University, New Jersey, under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. Unruh has made seminal contributions to our understanding of gravity...
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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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from this source, which is in the public domain. Edwin F. Taylor & John Archibald Wheeler (1966 - first edition only) Spacetime Physics (W.H. Freeman, San...
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Steven Weinberg and Gravitation by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. He believed these three books can supplement each other and lead...
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Next morning the reaction restarted by itself. The physicists John Archibald Wheeler, working for DuPont at the time, and Enrico Fermi were able to identify...
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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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1990 Jack Steinberger 1991 Bruno Rossi 1992 Anatole Abragam 1993 John Archibald Wheeler 1994 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1995 Tsung Dao Lee 1996 Wolfgang K.H...
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