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Jul 5, 2024 · John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.—died April 13, 2008, Hightstown, New Jersey) was a physicist, the first American involved in the theoretical development of the atomic bomb.
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Jun 29, 2024 · A close analysis of John Archibald Wheeler’s research notebooks reveals the inner-workings of perhaps the most influential “relativist” of the late twentieth century.
Jul 9, 2024 · John Archibald Wheeler, an American physicist, was born July 9, 1911. He grew up in Youngstown, Ohio; both of his parents were librarians (as would be two of his three siblings).
5 days ago · Faced with these infinities, John Archibald Wheeler and Heisenberg proposed, in 1937 and 1943 respectively, to supplant the problematic QFT with the so-called S-matrix theory.
Jul 5, 2024 · The author presents an illuminating analogy with the so-called delayed double-slit experiment, which was first conceived by John Archibald Wheeler. Here the measurement that determines whether an electron behaves as particle or wave is delayed until after the electron has already passed the slit.
3 days ago · The curvature is, in turn, caused by the energy–momentum of matter. Paraphrasing the relativist John Archibald Wheeler, spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
Jun 20, 2024 · His adviser at Princeton was John Archibald Wheeler, and his thesis concerned a least-action approach to quantum mechanics.
