John Archibald Wheeler (9 Juli 1911 – 13 April 2008) adalah seorang fisikawan teoretis Amerika Serikat yang membangkitkan ketertarikan terhadap relativitas umum di Amerika Serikat selepas Perang Dunia II. Wheeler juga bekerja dengan Niels Bohr dalam menjelaskan prinsip-prinsip dasar fisi nuklir. Sebagai salah satu pendukung Albert Einstein, ia mencoba membuat teori penyatuan medan yang divisikan oleh Einstein. Ia juga dikenal karena mencetuskan istilah "lubang hitam", "buih kuantum", dan "lubang cacing", serta frasa "it from bit".
John Archibald Wheeler | |
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Lahir | Jacksonville, Florida, Amerika Serikat | 9 Juli 1911
Meninggal | 13 April 2008 96) Hightstown, New Jersey, Amerika Serikat | (umur
Tempat tinggal | Amerika Serikat |
Kebangsaan | Amerika |
Almamater | Universitas Johns Hopkins |
Dikenal atas | Mencetuskan istilah "lubang hitam" Fisi nuklir Geometrodinamika Relativitas umum Teori penyatuan medan Teori penyerap Wheeler–Feynman Percobaan pilihan tertunda Wheeler |
Penghargaan | Enrico Fermi Award (1968) Franklin Medal (1969) Oersted Medal (1983) Albert Einstein Medal (1988) Matteucci Medal (1993) Wolf Prize (1997) |
Karier ilmiah | |
Bidang | Fisika |
Institusi | Universitas North Carolina Universitas Princeton Universitas Texas di Austin |
Pembimbing doktoral | Karl Herzfeld |
Mahasiswa doktoral | Hugh Everett Richard Feynman Bahram Mashhoon James Griffin Demetrios Christodoulou Claudio Bunster Jacob Bekenstein Robert Geroch John R. Klauder Kenneth W. Ford Charles Misner Kip Thorne Arthur Wightman Bill Unruh Robert Wald Milton Plesset Benjamin Schumacher Dieter Brill Bei-lok Hu Warner A. Miller Yavuz Nutku Arkady Kheyfets Edward Fireman David Kerlick |
Wheeler menjabat sebagai profesor di Universitas Princeton dan mengajar banyak fisikawan yang banyak menyumbang untuk bidang mekanika kuantum dan gravitasi.
Pranala luar
- A Collection of John Archibald Wheeler's Published and Unpublished Works
- Princeton University obituary
- Wheeler obituary + NY Times article
- Obituary Diarsipkan 2008-04-16 di Wayback Machine., Daily Telegraph, 15 April 2008.
- Obituary, The Times, 15 April 2008.
- Obituary, The Guardian, 16 April 2008.
- John Wheeler
- Science Show - 13-09-2003 Profile of John Wheeler
- Law Without Law Diarsipkan 2011-09-30 di Wayback Machine.
- Wheeler's Classic Delayed Choice Experiment
- Annotated bibliography for John Wheeler from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues[pranala nonaktif permanen]
- Princeton Physics News Volume 2, Issue 1 Winter 2006, (see p. 5) Diarsipkan 2009-02-27 di Wayback Machine.
- Oral History interview transcript with John Archibald Wheeler 5 April 1967, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Diarsipkan 2013-10-01 di Wayback Machine.
- Oral History interview transcript with John Archibald Wheeler 6 December 1993, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Cosmic Search Vol. 1 No. 4, FORUM: John A. Wheeler
- John Wheeler telling his life story at Web of Stories
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