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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Archibald Wheeler
Wheeler was one of the pioneers of the theory of nuclear fission (with Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi), and participated in the development of the U.S. atomic bomb under the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II.
Wheeler is truly an almost metaphysical thinker as he ponders the concept that the very laws of physics may be evolving analogous to the fashion of natural selection and evolution in biology.
John Wheeler: The occasion was a meeting in the fall of 1967 at the Institute of Space Studies in New York to consider this marvellous work of Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish on the pulsars.
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 John Archibald Wheeler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Archibald Wheeler was born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Wheeler's geometrodynamics, however, failed to explain some important physical phenomena, such as the existence of fermions or that of gravitational singularities.
Wheeler is almost metaphysical in speculating that the laws of physics may be evolving in a manner analogous to evolution by natural selection in biology.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler   (944 words)

  
 John Wheeler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Wheeler (ironmaster) of Wollaston, Stourbridge, England (died 1708)
Sir John Wheeler, British politician and Northern Ireland Office minister
John C. Wheeler, a chemistry professor at UCSD
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 John Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wheeler was born in 1911 in the United States.
John Wheeler currently is a professor emeritus of Princeton University in New Jersey.
Wheeler will always be remembered as a great physicist, but he should also be remembered as a fine mentor and friend to his many students.
www.usd.edu /phys/courses/phys300/gallery/clark/wheeler.html   (609 words)

  
 David Wheeler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wheeler married Joyce Blackler in August 1957, who herself used EDSAC for her own mathematical investigations as a research student from 1955.
He became a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge in 1964 and formally retired in 1994, although he continued to be an active member of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University until his death.
Wheeler is often quoted as saying "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Wheeler   (247 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: At Home in the Universe: Books: John A. Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wheeler is one of the 20th century's most notable nuclear physicists and relativity theorists.
Wheeler is Jan and Roland Blumberg Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin and Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus at Princeton University.
John Archibald Wheeler is one of the landmark physicists of the 20th century.
www.amazon.ca /Home-Universe-John-A-Wheeler/dp/1563965003   (944 words)

  
 The John Wheeler House - Historic Murfreesboro, NC ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1814, John Wheeler, a shipper from New Jersey, bought a four-year old brick building, at least one room of which was used as a store belonging to William Hardy Murfree and George Gordon.
John Wheeler was married three times and had 19 children.
The most famous son, John Hill Wheeler, was the first native North Carolinian to write the history of N.C. He was educated at the Hertford Academy and Columbian University in Washington, D.C. He was state treasurer, the Superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Charlotte and the first U.S. Minister of Nicaragua.
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 John Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wheeler is zelfs de mentor geweest van wetenschapper Kip Thorne, die zelf een goede reputatie heeft opgebouwd, in de loop van de jaren.
Wheeler heeft met veel beroemde wetenschappers samen gewerkt en nam zijn studenten soms zelfs mee naar het huis van Einstein.
Wheeler heeft ook aangetoond dat een giga-ster, met een massa groter dan dat of twee keer zo groot als de zon, zal exploderen als hij sterft.
anw.hml.nl /Werkstukken/Eva_Helder/wheeler   (568 words)

  
 Science Show - 13/09/2003: Profile of John Wheeler
John Wheeler talks about his early fascination with the universe, his collaboration with Niels Bohr and his conversations with Albert Einstein.
John Wheeler: Well, the idea of a chain reaction was one which Leo Szilard had had even before the discovery of fission.
John Wheeler: Yes, January 16th 1939 Niels Bohr had landed in New York and he had heard the results about the fission of uranium not then published, just a few minutes before he sailed from Copenhagen.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s941066.htm   (1200 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Wheeler (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jacksonville, Fla. Educated at Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1933), he joined the faculty at Princeton in 1938, and after 1976 was director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Univ. of Texas until he retired (1986).
In the 1930s, Wheeler worked with Danish physicist Niels Bohr; they were the first to explain nuclear fission in terms of quantum physics.
Wheeler went on to work on the U.S. atomic and hydrogen bomb projects, and joined with B. Harrison and M. Wakano to develop the equation of state for cold, dead matter and a complete catalog of cold, dead stars, firming up the evidence for fl holes (a term coined by Wheeler).
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 MobyGames - John Wheeler
John was then named the technical lead on Papyrus' most promising titles: NASCAR 1 and NASCAR 2.
John did some additional work on IndyCar II, and was working on the designs for several new products when he was named technical lead for Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends game.
John and Adam Lesvesque discussed the possibility of forming a company, and in July 1998 they made it official.
www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,9110   (266 words)

  
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Wheeler was one of the first prominent physicists to propose that reality might not be wholly physical; in some sense, our cosmos might be a participatory phenomenon, requiring the act of observation--and thus consciousness itself.
Wheeler also began to draw his colleagues' attention to some intriguing links between physics and information theory, which was invented in 1948 by the mathematician Claude Shannon.
Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment is a variation on the classic (but not classical) two-slit experiment, which demonstrates the schizophrenic nature of quantum phenomena.
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 Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wheeler was the son of John and Mary Wheeler of Sussex County, Delaware.
John Wheeler is listed as a "taylor" in the John Tate Store accounts in Guilford County, North Carolina, and is marked with a code indicating his credit was neither good nor bad, but "indifferent".
John Wheeler, age 63, farmer, born Guilford County is found in the 1850 census in Guilford County.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Farm/4038/Wheeler.html   (1391 words)

  
 Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 4 - FORUM: John A. Wheeler
Albert Einstein, Hidekei Yukawa and John A. Wheeler at Princeton in 1954.
Wheeler is a scientist-philosopher whose thoughts encompass the entire cosmos from its smallest microstructure to its astronomical maximum, while spanning its past and future between the two "Gates of Time": the "Big Bang" beginning and the "Big Crunch" ending.
Wheeler is Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas, Austin.
www.bigear.org /vol1no4/wheeler.htm   (3658 words)

  
 Science & Ultimate Reality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wheeler is renowned as both a research leader and as an extraordinary inspirer and teacher of many of the 20th century's most creative physicists.
Wheeler is known for addressing many of the most fundamental and challenging issues in physics.
The John Templeton Foundation is supporting the program in part to kick off a new long-term philanthropic agenda to develop a set of research sponsorship initiatives in basic science focusing on the mega-questions being posed on the frontiers of physics.
www.metanexus.net /ultimate_reality/info.htm   (789 words)

  
 Bio, Wheeler, James A.
Wheeler was listed as missing in action for nearly 37 years because his remains were never recovered or identified - until recently.
Wheeler almost never came back to the hometown where he was born Feb. 10, 1933, where he graduated from Tucson High School in 1950, and where he briefly attended the University of Arizona before enlisting in the Air Force.
Demeris Wheeler was told by her husband's wingman that the aircraft seemingly blew up in the air after its ordnance was hit and exploded again on impact.
www.pownetwork.org /bios/w/w382.htm   (1493 words)

  
 John Wheeler
John and Sallie Wheeler made their home in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, NC where John Wheeler was a merchant--had a general store.
John Wheeler died 7 Aug 1832 in Murfreesboro, NC.
State of North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions --Hertford County August Term 1833 This last will and Testament of Sarah Wheeler dec. was exhibited in open Court of probate and the same Proved by the oath of Samuel J Wheeler one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
www.sallysfamilyplace.com /Wheeler/Page52.htm   (1931 words)

  
 David Wheeler
Wheeler’s “initial orders” allowed Edsac instructions to be provided in a simple language rather than by writing binary numbers, and made it possible for non-specialists to begin to write programs.
Wheeler was an inspiring teacher who helped to develop computer science teaching at Cambridge from its inception in 1953, when the Diploma in Computer Science was launched as the world’s first taught course in computing.
Wheeler spent the rest of his career in Cambridge, although he returned to Illinois in 1959 for a brief period, during which his son Martin was born.
www.thocp.net /biographies/wheeler_david.htm   (1429 words)

  
 Mountain Memories - John Wheeler Helms
Well, Wheeler and J.D., one of his sons, saddled up their horses and rode about three miles over to look at that bull one day to see if they could figure out a way to get it home.
John Wheeler Helms was a great father and a man among men.
John Wheeler Helms deserved the love and respect his children showered upon him.
www.mtnlaurel.com /seasonal_stories/jwhelms.htm   (1111 words)

  
 1997 Wolf Prize Awarded to John Wheeler, last modified 20-Dec-1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jerusalem, Dec 9, 1996: John Archibald Wheeler, Professor Emeritus at Princeton and Texas universities, was named winner of the 1997 Wolf Prize in Physics, for developing the modern "fl hole" theory.
Wheeler served on the Princeton faculty from 1938 to 1976.
John A. Wheeler (center) accepts congratulations from his Princeton colleagues Val Fitch and Arthur Wightman.
pupgg.princeton.edu /www/wheelerwolfprize.html   (198 words)

  
 John H. Wheeler (John Hill), 1806-1882. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians.
Wheeler accompanied General Greene in his southern campaign, and was with him in the hard fought and glorious victory at Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781, and until the close of the war.
John Campbell, a Scotchman, and Postmaster of the town, was the proprietor, or "Undertaker," as he styled himself.
But Colonel John Ashe of New Hanover, and Colonel Waddell of Brunswick embodied the militia of the two counties, and marched at their head to Brunswick, where the Diligence was anchored, and notified the commander that they would resist the landing of the stamp paper.
www.researchonline.net /nccw/bios/wheeler.htm   (17338 words)

  
 The Library Company - Jane Johnson Online Exhibit
Wheeler was the American minister to Nicaragua, and his party was passing through, on their way to New York and then to Nicaragua.
Wheeler left Jane and her sons locked in a hotel room, giving specific instructions not to talk to any of the fl hotel staff.
Wheeler, a prominent Democrat, appealed to his friend Judge John Kintzing Kane of the Federal District Court, another proslavery Democrat, who summoned Williamson before him with a writ of habeas corpus ordering him to bring Jane and her two sons before the bench.
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 John Parsons Wheeler, Jr., Colonel, United States Army
They are proud of their three children: John P. III, USMA 1966, whose accomplishments appear elsewhere in this book; Robert C., Yale 1969, MBA Stanford and currently a VP of General Electric; and Janet Marie, Wellesley College 1985 and MBA New York University.
John Parsons Wheeler, Jr., a retired Army Colonel, and an authority on armor operations and a veteran of three wars, died September 29, 1995 of heart failure at Perry Point Veterans Medical Center, Virginia.
Colonel Wheeler is also survived by his wife of 52 years, the former Janet Conly; another son, Robert Wheeler of Wilton, Connecticut; a daughter, Janet Marie Wheeler of New York City; and 3 grandchildren.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jpwheeler.htm   (634 words)

  
 New Homes - Builders in Citrus County - Wheeler Construction
Wheeler Construction, Inc. has made a name for itself by offering popular home styles at affordable prices.
The Wheeler team believes their continued success is based on the goodwill and satisfaction of their customers.
Wheeler Construction, Inc. is a general contracting company built on referrals and happy, satisfied customers.
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 John Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Aiming a systematicalidentification of matter with space, geometrodynamics have often been said to be a systematic prolungation of thephilosophy of nature as concieved by Descartes and Spinoza.
Wheeler's geometrodynamics, however, failed to explain some important physical phenomena, such as theexistence of fermions or that of gravitational singularities.
Wheeler himself therefore abandonned this theory in the early1970's.
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 Wheeler Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A gathering of Wheeler boys and girls during the Workshop on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations held at the Univ. of Maryland (March 1991).
Wheeler went to Moscow with his grandson to attend the First Sakharov Conference in June of 1991.
John A. Wheeler is on far right, and Mrs.
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 Guru Ratings — Satsang Reports, John Wheeler
I first became aware of John Wheeler when I saw a flyer of his posted on the bulletin board outside the Herb Room/Food Bin in Santa Cruz (a highly recommended herbal/natural food store combo).
After listening for a while to John talk with his friend about "thinking you've lost it", the feelings of doubt that surface, etc. I got the impression that the friend had made the realization, but it wasn't stabilized or something, like I say, I wasn't really listening.
John continued on talking to me after that about something or other, but what else is there really to say.
www.globalserve.net /~sarlo/ReportsJW.htm   (664 words)

  
 Rev. John WHEELER & Rhoda RAY
John Wheeler was, at age 68, in 28th NC Infantry Co. B.
John Wheeler of Yancey Co. to Samuel Austin of Yancey Co..$50..in Yancey
John H. Wheeler was a private in the 29th NC Infantry, Company B. This was the first, and one of only a few, NC Regiment to go to Tennesee.
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 Definition of John Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (born 1911) is an American theoretical physicist.
Law Without Law theorizes experiments utilizing photons from distant locations in the universe, imaged using galactic clusters as lenses, but which are detected using apparatus for quantum entanglement, thereby influencing history billions of years in the past.
Doctor John Wheeler should not be confused with John Wheeler the actor.
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 The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . .
Patrolman John Wheeler was killed in an automobile accident when his patrol car was rear-ended by another vehicle traveling at an estimated 100 mph on Loop 410.
Patrolman Wheeler was able to send a distress signal from his radio after the collision but was trapped in the vehicle and unable to respond to dispatch.
Patrolman Wheeler's wife was the dispatcher on duty at the time of the accident.
www.odmp.org /officer.php?oid=17907   (168 words)

  
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John WHEELER was a "Baptist Clergyman" and was affiliated with the Pensacola Baptist Church.
Their son Stephen WHEELER was born before 1770 in Orange County, NY; they also had sons Jesse and Oliver WHEELER, and possibly John WHEELER.
Stephen WHEELER married Milley CROSTHWAIT/CROSSWHITE, daughter of Abraham CROSTHWAIT/CROSSWHITE, who was a neighbor of James and Stephen WHEELER on Hunger's Mother, a branch of the middle fork of the Holstein River.
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