John Wheeler

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Physicist
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkb:University_of_Texas_at_Austin
gptkbp:alma_mater gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkb:University_of_Texas_at_Austin
gptkbp:awards gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkb:Einstein_Prize
gptkb:Oppenheimer_Prize
gptkbp:birth_date 1911-07-09
gptkbp:children gptkb:George_Wheeler
gptkb:William_Wheeler
Catherine Wheeler
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:Quantum_Mechanics
gptkb:philosophy_of_science
gptkb:general_relativity
nuclear physics
gptkbp:death_date 2008-04-13
gptkbp:famous_for gptkb:Wheeler's_delayed-choice_experiment
Wheeler's geometrodynamics
Wheeler's concept of quantum foam
Wheeler's concept of the participatory universe
Wheeler's law of gravitation
Wheeler's principle of least action
Wheeler-De Witt equation
Wheeler's concept of the universe as a self-excited circuit.
gptkbp:field gptkb:Physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John Wheeler
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Andrew_Strominger
gptkb:Gerard_'t_Hooft
gptkb:Leonard_Susskind
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:David_Gross
gptkb:Edward_Witten
gptkb:Stephen_Hawking
gptkb:Brian_Greene
gptkb:Juan_Maldacena
gptkb:Nima_Arkani-Hamed
gptkb:David_Deutsch
gptkb:Roger_Penrose
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkbp:known_for the term 'black hole'.
concept of black holes
the principle of 'it from bit'.
gptkbp:notable_students gptkb:Kip_Thorne
gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler_Jr.
gptkb:David_Finkelstein
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Jackson,_Michigan
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Princeton,_New_Jersey
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Janet_E._Wheeler
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Quantum_Foam
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6