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John A. Wheeler, Physicist, Coiner of 'Black Hole,' Dies at 96 »

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John A. Wheeler, a visionary physicist and teacher who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission, gave black holes their name and argued about the nature of reality with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, died Sunday morning at his home in Hightstown, N.J. He was 96.

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CRYMTYPHON4 months, 2 weeks ago

He was also a mentor to Hugh Everett, the physics student who proposed a fix to the holes in standard quantum theory: the many-worlds interpretations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interp...
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engineer4 months, 2 weeks ago

He was the last great one.
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  CRYMTYPHON4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  No! Lots of great physicists left.
  How about Peter Higgs ? Hanging on to see if the Large Hadron Collider will prove the Higgs Boson?
  Makes it exciting.
  Or Penrose ?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
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