Wheeler

Wheeler
Wheeler
 
['wɪːlə], John Archibald, amerikanischer Physiker, * Jacksonville (Fla.) 9. 7. 1911; 1938-76 Professor an der Princeton University, anschließend an der University of Texas in Austin. Wheeler war 1949-53 maßgeblich an der Entwicklung der Wasserstoffbombe beteiligt. Er leistete bedeutende Beiträge zur Kernphysik, u. a. 1939 zusammen mit N. H. D. Bohr über den Mechanismus der Kernspaltung (Tröpfchenmodell). Weitere Untersuchungen betrafen die Theorie der Gravitation und die Struktur der Raum-Zeit-Welt (»Geometrodynamics«, 1962), insbesondere den Gravitationskollaps und Schwarze Löcher. Wheeler erhielt 1968 den Enrico-Fermi-Preis.

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