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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectJohn Archibald Wheeler
Dates
July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008
Authorized Form of Name
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Additional Forms of Names
Uiler, Dzhon Archibal'd, 1911-2008
Wheeler, J. A. (John Archibald), 1911-2008
Wheeler, John Archibald
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-
Biography
Abstract
Physicist (atomic and nuclear theory, relativity theory, and cosmology). On the physics faculty at Princeton University from 1938; physicist, Manhattan Engineer District (1942-1945); and Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Texas at Austin (1976-1986).
Important Dates
July 9, 1911Birth, Jacksonville (Fla.).
1933Received Ph.D. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Md.).
1933 – 1934National Research Council (NRC) Fellow, New York University.
1934 – 1935National Research Council (NRC) Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen.
1935 – 1938Assistant Professor of Physics (1935-1937) and Associate Professor of Physics (1937-1938), University of North Carolina.
1938 – 2008Assistant Professor of Physics (1938-1945); Associate Professor of Physics (1945-1947); Professor of Physics (1947-1966); Director, Project Matterhorn (1951-1953); Joseph Henry Professor of Physics (1966-1976); and Emeritus Professor of Physics (1976-2008), Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1939Visiting Professor, University of Michigan.
1940Visiting Professor, University of Chicago.
1942 – 1945Researcher, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory (1942-1943); Physicist, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. (1943-1944); and Physicist, Hanford Engineering Works (1944-1945), Manhattan Project.
1947U. S. Representative, Cosmic Ray Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
1949 – 1950Guggenheim Fellow, University of Paris.
1952Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1956Lorentz Professor, University of Leiden.
1957 – 1967Member, Advisory Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
1959 – 1989Member, Board of Trustees, Battelle Memorial Institute.
1960Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
1962Fulbright Professor, Kyoto University.
1964Visiting Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge University.
1966President, American Physical Society (APS).
1968Awarded Enrico Fermi Award, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
1969 – 1976Member, General Committee for Arms Control and Disarmament, U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
1970Awarded National Medal of Science.
1971Member, Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
1971 – 1974Vice President, American Philosophical Society.
1975Battelle Memorial Professor, University of Washington.
1976 – 2008Professor of Physics (1976-1979); Ashbel Smith Professor (1979-1986); Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics (1981-1986); Director, Center for Theoretical Physics (1976-1986); and Professor Emeritus of Physics (1986-2008), University of Texas, Austin, Austin (Tex.).
1983I. I. Rabi Visiting Professor, Columbia University.
1983Awarded Oersted Medal, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).
1996Awarded Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics.
2003Awarded Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society (APS).
April 13, 2008Death, Hightstown (N.J.).
Occupation
Theoretical atomic and nuclear physicist.
Places
Birth
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
Co-wrote a paper on the mechanism of nuclear fission. Both employed at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen.
Both employed at New York University and described the Breit-Wheeler process.
Brill, Dieter R.
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University on time-symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations.
Christodoulou, Demetrios, 1951-
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University on gravitational collapse and black holes.
Ciufolini, Ignazio, 1951-
Co-wrote "Gravitation and Inertia."
Everett, Hugh
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University on quantum mechanics.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University. Both employed at Princeton University.
Ford, Lawrence H.
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University.
Geroch, Robert
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University on singularities in the spacetime of general relativity.
Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-
Ph.D. advisor at Johns Hopkins University.
Hu, B. L. (Bei-Lok)
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University.
Kheyfets, Arkady
Advised by Wheeler at University of Texas, Austin.
Klauder, John R.
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University.
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University, "Outline of Feynman Quantization of General Relativity; Derivation of Field Equations; Vanishing of the Hamiltonian"; both employed at Princeton University; and co-wrote "Gravitation."
Rees, Martin J., 1942-
Co-wrote "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology: an Introduction to Current Research."
Ruffini, Remo
Co-wrote "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology: an Introduction to Current Research."
Shepley, Lawrence C., 1939-
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University.
Taylor, Edwin F.
Co-wrote "Spacetime Physics" and "Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity."
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University, Geometrodynamics of Cylindrical Systems. Both employed at Princeton University. Co-wrote "Gravitation."
Tiomno, Jayme
Co-wrote "Guide to Literature of Elementary Particle Physics: Including Cosmic Rays."
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University, "Nonspherical Gravitational Collapse and Black Hole Uniqueness."
Wightman, A. S. (Arthur Strong), 1922-2013
Advised by Wheeler at Princeton University on negative pi mesons in hydrogen. Both employed at Princeton University.
Colleagues
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-
Both employed at Princeton University.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at Princeton University.
Barschall, H. H. (Henry Herman), 1915-1997
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Chiao, Raymond Y.
Served as Wheeler's research assistant at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004
Both employed at University of Texas, Austin.
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Doan, Richard Lloyd, 1898-
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler, 1876-1965
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Friedman, Francis L. (Francis Lee), 1918-
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Gross, David J. (David Jonathan)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at New York University and the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Kimble, H. Jeff (Harry Jeffrey), 1949-
Both employed at University of Texas, Austin.
Konopinski, Emil Jan, 1911-
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Texas, Austin.
Metropolis, N. (Nicholas), 1915-
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Murray, Forest
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Ohlinger, Leo
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Plass, Gilbert N.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of Texas, Austin.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Sejnowski, Terrence J. (Terrence Joseph)
Served as Wheeler's research assistant at Princeton University.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Texas, Austin.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of Texas, Austin.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University and the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Young, Gale Jay
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Additional
Alley, Carroll O.
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950-
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Braginskii, V. B. (Vladimir Borisovich)
Burbidge, Geoffrey R.
Clapp, Roger Edge, 1919-1990
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-
Goldberg, Joshua N.
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993
Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985
Groueff, Stephane
Harvey, A. L. (Alexander Louis), 1917-
Havens, William W. (William Westerfield), 1920-2004
Hill, A. G. (Albert Gordon), 1910-1996
Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995
Klein, Oskar
Koehler, James S. (James Stark), 1914-2006
Krause, Ernst Henry, 1913-
Lamb, Willis E. (Willis Eugene), 1913-2008
Layzer, David
MacInnes, Duncan A. (Duncan Arthur), 1885-1965
Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972
Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966
Moller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Plyler, Earle Keith, 1897-1976
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Rowland, Henry Augustus, 1848-1901
Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Sharp, D. H. (David Howland), 1938-
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Stern, Marvin, 1923-
Taylor, Theodore B., 1925-
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Weyssenhoff, Johann Virgilius von, 1889-1972
Williams, Dudley, 1912-
Witten, Louis
Wynchank, Sinclair
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)
Institutions
Major Positions
Columbia University. Department of Physics
I. I. Rabi Visiting Professor.
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Researcher, Manhattan Project.
Kyoto Daigaku. Department of Physics
Fulbright Professor.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Researcher, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory; Physicist, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co.; and Physicist; Hanford Engineering Works.
National Research Council (U.S.)
Fellow at New York University and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen.
New York University. Department of Physics
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.
Niels Bohr institutet
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Director, Project Matterhorn; Joseph Henry Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
Lorentz Professor.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Metallurgical Laboratory
Researcher, Manhattan Project.
Université de Paris
Guggenheim Fellow.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
University of Cambridge
Visiting Fellow, Clare College.
University of Chicago. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
University of Michigan. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Physics.
University of Texas at Austin. Department of Physics
Professor of Physics; Ashbel Smith Professor; Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics; and Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member, Board of Directors.
American Mathematical Society
American Philosophical Society
Vice President and Councilor.
President.
Battelle Memorial Institute
Member, Board of Trustees.
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
International Astronomical Union
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
U. S. Representative, Cosmic Ray Commission.
Johns Hopkins University. Department of Physics
Received Ph.D. in 1933.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
New York Academy of Sciences
Honorary member.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Member, Advisory Committee.
United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Member, General Committee for Arms Control and Disarmament.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Conference notes prepared informally and unofficially by John A. Wheeler, 1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Creating Copenhagen [videorecording] / produced by The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, 2000, March 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gregory Breit Symposium [sound recording], 1968 May 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Humorous dialogues and songs written during the Atomic Energy Project at Richland, Washington [sound recording]
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Invited papers on the history of fission physics [sound recording], 1967 April 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
John A. Wheeler addition to papers.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
John A. Wheeler letter, 1985, to Linus Pauling about Henry Augustus Rowland and the early work done in the combination principle of wavelength spectroscopy, and notes from lectures by Niels Bohr at Princeton. 1939.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
John A. Wheeler papers, 1894-2008.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
John A. Wheeler response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
John Wheeler papers, 1938-1987.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Niels Bohr Memorial Session [sound recording] / 1963 April 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hideki Yukawa, 1962 July 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1962 March 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1967 April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4, May 23 and November 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1993 December 6 to May 18, 1995.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Particles and geometry [sound recording] : Second Cambridge conference on relativity, 1969 May 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Physics in industry [sound recording] / 1976 November 8-9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Selected papers [sound recording],
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Sinclair Wynchank letters to Dr. Wynchank from G. T. P. Tarrant and John A. Wheeler, 1989.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Symposium of the Division of History of Physics and the Division of Nuclear Physics [sound recording] : Niels Bohr's life and work / 1985 April 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Teaching notes from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a draft manuscript entitled "The Physics of Solids and Liquids: A Guide to the Study of the Condensed State of Matter," 1936-1937.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Timothy Ferris interviews conducted for book, THE RED LIMIT, 1974-1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
"A Family Gathering": Letters to John A. Wheeler, 1977.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts, 1922-1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Alex Harvey letters from prominent physicists, 1960-1973.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Allen Shenstone autobiography, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Atomic energy for military purposes, 1945 [typescript].
Manuscripts and Archives Department
Hagley Museum and Library
298 Buck Road East, Greenville, DE 19807, USA
Charles W. Misner papers, 1966-1969.
Hornbake Library. Archives and Manuscripts Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Christian Møller papers, 1928-1980.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Crawford Greenewalt Manhattan Project diary, 1942-1945.
Manuscripts and Archives Department
Hagley Museum and Library
298 Buck Road East, Greenville, DE 19807, USA
Dudley Williams, Fifty years of physics: Some personal memories, circa 1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Duncan A. MacInnes papers, 1926-1965.
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598, USA
Earle Keith Plyler Intellectual autobiography, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Entropy in cosmology, [undated].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Eugene Feenberg correspondence, 1927-1958.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Federal Bureau of Investigation files on George Gamow, Robert Serber, and John Archibald Wheeler, 1946-1973.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Fifty years with nuclear fission [videorecording]: highlights of the 1989 conference.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gregory Breit papers, 1929-1980 (bulk 1960-1970).
Manuscripts and Archives
Yale University Library
Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Gregory Breit selected papers [microform], (bulk 1950-1973).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hanford-Richland 25th anniversary [motion picture] / produced by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hans Frauenfelder response to survey on the impact of immigration on U.S. physics, 1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Henry De Wolf Smyth papers, 1885-1987.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Henry H. Barschall papers, 1942-1974.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk)
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hugh Everett papers, 1953-1989.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
hysics Outreach and Physics History [sound recording], 2017 January 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Johann Weyssenhoff papers, 1919-1972.
Oddzialw Krakowie. Archiwum
Polska Akademia Nauk
Crakow, Poland
John Clarke Slater papers, 1908-1976.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Karl Herzfeld papers, 1914-1977.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Kip Thorne interviews conducted for his book "Black Holes and Time Warps," 1980-1989.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Leon Rosenfeld papers, 1911-1974.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marcia Bartusiak interviews conducted for her book "Einstein's Unfinished Symphony," 1998-1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Murray Gell-Mann papers, 1931-2001 (bulk 1955-1993).
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Niels Bohr material collected elsewhere, 1912-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr reprints from Henrik Anthony Kramers collection, 1910-1950.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr scientific correspondence, 1903-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr scientific correspondence, supplement, 1910-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
On the teaching of science at Princeton, 1966.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Albert G. Hill, 1991 August 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Aristid Victor Grosse, 1974 January 11 and April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carroll O. Alley, 2006 May 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Misner, 1989 April 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles W. Misner, 2001 May 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with D. H. Sharp, 1993 July 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with D. W. Sciama, 1989 January 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Layzer, 2007 December 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dennis William Sciama, 1999 June 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with E. A. Frieman, 1986 June 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edward A. Frieman, 2006 December 4 and 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with Ernst Henry Krause, 1982 August 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Geoffrey Burbidge, 1975 June 4
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George Gamow, 1968 April 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Henry Margenau, 1964 May 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Herbert F. York, 1986 February 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1960 February.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Stark Koehler, 1981 March 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Joshua Goldberg, 2011 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Keith Allan Brueckner, 1986 July 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Kenneth M. Watson, 1986 February 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997 November 15 and 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Louis Witten, 2011 March 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lyman Spitzer, Jr., 1978 March 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Marvin Stern, 1987 May 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Richard Garwin, 2012 December 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Sam B. Treiman, 1986 December 18.
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Oral history interview with Stanley Deser, 2011 March 12.
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Oral history interview with Theodore Brewster Taylor, 1989 April 12.
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Oral history interview with Vladimir Braginsky, 1997 January 15.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with William W. Havens, 1991 February 21, July 17, 29, Augut 5, 12 and 14.
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Oral history remarks by Willis E. Lamb in a telephone conversation with Ken Ford, 1994.
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Oskar Klein papers, 1916-1970.
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Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peoples Archive interviews with physicists, [video recording]
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Presentation of the Enrico Fermi Award [motion picture] / produced by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
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Responses to Early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.
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Roger Edge Clapp papers, 1914-1991 (bulk 1940-1991).
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Ruth Moore research materials for NIELS BOHR - THE MAN, HIS SCIENCE AND THE WORLD THEY CHANGED, [circa 1912]-1983.
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Science and the ultimate reality [computer file] : celebrating the vision of John Archibald Wheeler and taking it forward into a new center of discovery / 2002 March 15-18.
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Scientific correspondence [microform], 1907-1962.
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Stephane Groueff papers, 1955-1975
Mugar Library Special Collections
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Symposium of the history of physics [videorecording]: the coming of age of nuclear physics - the 1930s.
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The Italian navigator has landed...a half century of nuclear energy [videorecording] / Argonne National Laboratory, producer ; U. S. Dept. of Energy ; Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute ; Power Reactor and Nuclear Development Corporation-Japan, sponsors ; Peter Graves, narrator, 1992.
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The scientific legacy of John Wheeler [sound recording], 2009 May 2.
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Timothy Ferris interviews conducted for the television program, The Creation of the Universe, circa 1982-1988.
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Videotaped interviews for documentary, Reflections of Einstein,
In Walter Glickman's possession
Long Island University, Brooklyn Center
Brooklyn, N.Y.11201 USA
William F. Meggers addition to papers, 1870-1973 (bulk 1906-1966).
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Published Resources
Author
A journey into gravity and spacetime / John Archibald Wheeler.
At home in the universe / John Archibald Wheeler.
Geons, black holes, and quantum foam : a life in physics / John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford.
Gravitation [by] Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne [and] John Archibald Wheeler.
Gravitation and inertia / Ignazio Ciufolini and John Archibald Wheeler.
Spacetime physics [by] Edwin F. Taylor [and] John Archibald Wheeler.