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John A. Wheeler
9 July 1911 - 13 April 2008
Hightstown, NJ

Submitted by Physics Today Editorial Staff

Published on 14 April 2008

Current comments and reminiscences on John A. Wheeler:

Obituary from the The New York Times (Monday, April 14, 2008).

Comments from Cosmic Variance (Sunday, April 13, 2008).

Farewell to John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008), a great physicists and teacher who introduced me to Wormholes, Geons, Geometrodynanics and Black Holes.

1. 1. Mielke, E.W. :``Knot wormholes in geometrodynamics?", Gen. Rel. Grav. 8, 175 -- 196 (1977). [reprinted in Knots and Applications, L.H. Kauffman, ed. (World Scientific, Singapore 1995), p. 229 -- 250].
2. 2. Mielke, E.W., and R. Scherzer: ``Geon--type solutions of the nonlinear Hei\-sen\-berg--Klein--Gordon equation", Phys. Rev. D24, 2111 -- 2126 (1981).
3. 3. Mielke, E.W. : Geometrodynamics of Gauge Fields --- On the geometry of Yang--Mills and gravitational gauge theories, (Akademie--Verlag, Berlin 1987).
4. 4. Mielke, E.W. and A. A. Rincon Maggiolo: ``Rotating black hole solution in a generalized topological 3D gravity with torsion"" Phys. Rev. D 67, 104026 (2003) 1 - 7 pages.

Eckehard W. Mielke *74
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico.

Obituary from the BBC News (Tuesday, April 15, 2008).

Obituary from the The Guardian (Wednesday, April 16, 2008).

Obituary from the The Independent (Wednesday, April 16, 2008).

Physics Today articles by John A. Wheeler

• Mechanism of Fission - November 1967
• To Joseph Henry - February 1969
• Introducing the Black Hole - November 1967
  (Written with Remo Ruffini)
• Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics - May 1999
  (Reviewed by John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford and Maurice Goldhaber)