Links posted on April 13, 2008
John Archibald Wheeler died today. A huge percentage of the best researchers in relativity research (and Richard Feynman) can trace their Ph.D. lineage back to Wheeler. His research was massively influential in reconnecting general relativity with astrophysics. He was, by all accounts, gentle, straightforward and noncondescending in his teaching and dealings with ordinary people, which, as we know, can be quite rare in physicists.
RIP - W of MTW [more inside]
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