John Archibald Wheeler

Affiliations:	1935-1938	Physics	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
	1938-1976	Physics	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	1956-1956	Lorentz Institute	Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
	1976-1986	Physics	University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

Area:

Gravitational Physics/Theoretical Astrophysics

Parents

Karl F. Herzfeld	grad student	1933	Johns Hopkins
(Theory of the dispersion and absorption of helium.)
Gregory Breit	post-doc	1933-1934	NYU
Niels Bohr	post-doc	1934-1935	Copenhagen University

Children

Raymond Y. Chiao	research assistant		Princeton
Remo Ruffini	research assistant	1971-
Frederick J. Ernst	research assistant	1955	Princeton
Michael Ian Shamos	research assistant	1968	Princeton (Computer Science Tree)
Terrence J. Sejnowski	research assistant	1970	Princeton (Neurotree)
Katharine Way	grad student	1938	UNC Chapel Hill
Richard P. Feynman	grad student	1942	Princeton
Gilbert Norman Plass	grad student	1947	Princeton
Thomas Coor	grad student	1949	Princeton
S. Fred Singer	grad student	1949	Princeton
Jayme Tiomno	grad student	1950	Princeton
Arthur Strong Wightman	grad student	1950	Princeton
David Lawrence Hill	grad student	1951	Princeton
John Sampson Toll	grad student	1952	Princeton
Kenneth William Ford	grad student	1953	Princeton
James Joseph Griffin	grad student	1956	Princeton
Arthur Baraway Komar	grad student	1956	Princeton
Hugh Everett	grad student	1957	Princeton
Charles W. Misner	grad student	1954-1957	Princeton
Dieter R. Brill	grad student	1959	Princeton
John George Fletcher	grad student	1959	Princeton
B. Kent Harrison	grad student	1959	Princeton
John R. Klauder	grad student	1959	Princeton
Peter Andrews Putnam	grad student	1960	Princeton
Robert W. Fuller	grad student	1961	Princeton
Daniel Sperber	grad student	1961	Princeton
Masami Wakano	grad student	1961	Princeton
Richard Wallace Lindquist	grad student	1962	Princeton
Fred Manasse	grad student	1962	Princeton
Lawrence C. Shepley	grad student	1965	Princeton
Kip S. Thorne	grad student	1962-1965	Princeton
Cheuk-Yin Wong	grad student	1966	Princeton
Ulrich H. Gerlach	grad student	1967	Princeton
Robert Paul Geroch	grad student	1967	Princeton
Hans C. Ohanian	grad student	1968	Princeton
J. Peter Vajk	grad student	1968	Princeton
Arthur E. Fischer	grad student	1969	Princeton
Robert C. Gilman	grad student	1969	Princeton
Frank J. Zerilli	grad student	1969	Princeton
Brendan B. Godfrey	grad student	1970	Princeton
Demetrios L. Christodoulou	grad student	1971	Princeton
Clifford Edward Rhoades	grad student	1971	Princeton
William G. Unruh	grad student	1971	Princeton
Jacob D. Bekenstein	grad student	1972	Princeton
Bei-Lok Hu	grad student	1972	Princeton
Bahram Mashhoon	grad student	1972	Princeton
Robert M. Wald	grad student	1972	Princeton
Claudio Bunster Weitzman	grad student	1973	Princeton
Lawrence H. Ford	grad student	1974	Princeton
David Kerlick	grad student	1970-1975	Princeton
William Kent Wootters	grad student	1980	UT Austin
Warner Allen Miller	grad student	1986	UT Austin
Benjamin W. Schumacher	grad student	1990	UT Austin
Wolfgang P. Schleich	post-doc
Wojciech Hubert Zurek	post-doc	1979-1981	UT Austin
Joseph Weber	research scientist	1955-1956	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Collaborators

Milton Spinoza Plesset

collaborator

1933-1934

Niels Bohr Institute

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Wesley DH, Wheeler JA. (2003) Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 234: 421-436
Cirone MA, Rza?zewski K, Schleich WP, et al. (2002) Quantum anticentrifugal force Physical Review a. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 65: 022101/1-022101/6
Holz DE, Wheeler JA. (2002) Retro-MACHOS: π in the sky? Astrophysical Journal. 578: 330-334
Wakano M, Wheeler JA. (2001) Asymptotics of electromagnetic radiation off a spherical superconductor Journal of Mathematical Physics. 42: 1120-1147
Wheeler JA, Ford K, Rigden JS. (2000) Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics American Journal of Physics. 68: 584-585
Ford KW, Wheeler JA. (2000) Semiclassical description of scattering Annals of Physics. 281: 608-635
Gentle AP, Holz DE, Miller WA, et al. (1999) Apparent horizons in simplicial Brill wave initial data Classical and Quantum Gravity. 16: 1979-1985
Bestle J, Schleich WP, Wheeler JA. (1995) Anti-stealth: WKB grapples with a corner Applied Physics B Laser and Optics. 60: 289-299
Gallas JAC, Schleich WP, Wheeler JA. (1995) Waves at walls, corners, heights: Looking for simplicity Applied Physics B Laser and Optics. 60: 279-287
WHEELER JA. (1993) PHYSICS AT THE PLANCK LENGTH International Journal of Modern Physics A. 8: 4013-4018

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