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Wheeler, John Archibald was born on July 9, 1911 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Son of Joseph Lewis and Mabel (Archibald) Wheeler.
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Gravity is not a force acting at a distance. It is mass gripping spacetime, telling it how to curve, and spacetime gripping mass, telling it how to move. According to preeminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler, gravity makes the closest connection between the world we see around us and the inner-most workings of the universe. In this imaginative volume, Wheeler explores gravity and spacetime by applying Einstein's battle-tested theory to both familiar and exotic phomomena--everything from flying tennis balls, to hurling gravity waves from crashing stars, the motion of the planets, and the collapse of a star into a black hole. It's a provocative, revealing, fully engaging scientific journey led by a frontline participant in the most important work in physics in the last 50 years.
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Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, and pioneer of nuclear fission, John A. Wheeler is one of our most original and profound thinkers. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to successfully describe nuclear fission in terms of quantum physics - research that led to his involvement in the Los Alamos project. This volume presents essays by John Archibald Wheeler on the science and art of physics. Wheeler writes on a variety of major figures, including Max Planck, Marie Curie, Joseph Henry, Hideki Yukawa and, particularly, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. His wide-ranging essays reflect on the universe as a home for man and the responsibilities of a citizen-scientist, as well as cosmology, the art of science and death. This collection is intended for general readers with an interest in science.
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Written by two of the field's true pioneers, Spacetime Physics can extend and enhance coverage of specialty relativity in the classroom. This thoroughly up-to-date, highly accessible overview covers microgravity, collider accelerators, satellite probes, neutron detectors, radioastronomy, and pulsars. The chapter on general relativity with new material on gravity waves, black holes, and cosmology.
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This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate level course on gravitation physics, teaching students to: • Grasp the laws of physics in flat spacetime • Predict orders of magnitude • Calculate using the principal tools of modern geometry • Predict all levels of precision • Understand Einstein's geometric framework for physics • Explore applications, including pulsars and neutron stars, cosmology, the Schwarzschild geometry and gravitational collapse, and gravitational waves • Probe experimental tests of Einstein's theory • Tackle advanced topics such as superspace and quantum geometrodynamics The book offers a unique, alternating two-track pathway through the subject: • In many chapters, material focusing on basic physical ideas is designated as Track 1. These sections together make an appropriate one-term advanced/graduate level course (mathematical prerequisites: vector analysis and simple partial-differential equations). The book is printed to make it easy for readers to identify these sections. • The remaining Track 2 material provides a wealth of advanced topics instructors can draw from to flesh out a two-term course, with Track 1 sections serving as prerequisites.
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( Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory ...)
Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity: inertia here arises from mass there. The authors explain the modern understanding of the link between gravitation and inertia in Einstein's theory, from the origin of inertia in some cosmological models of the universe, to the interpretation of the initial value formulation of Einstein's standard geometrodynamics; and from the devices and the methods used to determine the local inertial frames of reference, to the experiments used to detect and measure the "dragging of inertial frames of reference." In this book, Ciufolini and Wheeler emphasize present, past, and proposed tests of gravitational interaction, metric theories, and general relativity. They describe the numerous confirmations of the foundations of geometrodynamics and some proposed experiments, including space missions, to test some of its fundamental predictions--in particular gravitomagnetic field or "dragging of inertial frames" and gravitational waves.
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Wheeler, John Archibald was born on July 9, 1911 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Son of Joseph Lewis and Mabel (Archibald) Wheeler.
Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1933. Doctor of Science (honorary), Western Reserve University, 1958. Doctor of Science (honorary), University North Carolina, 1959.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1968. Doctor of Science (honorary), Middlebury College, 1969. Doctor of Science (honorary), Rutgers University, 1969.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1973. Doctor of Science (honorary), Yale University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Uppsala, 1975.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Maryland, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), Gustavus Adolphus University, 1981. Doctor of Science (honorary), Catholic University America, 1982.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1983. Doctor of Science (honorary), Princeton University, 1986. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Connecticut, 1989.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Maine, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary), Tufts University, 1992. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Drexel University, 1987.
National Research Council fellow, New York, Copenhagen., 1933-1935;
from assistant professor to associate professor physics, U. North Carolina, 1935-1938;
assistant professor physics, Princeton University, 1938-1942;
associate professor, Princeton University, 1945-1947;
professor, Princeton University, 1947-1976;
Joseph Henry professor physics, Princeton University, 1966-1976;
Joseph Henry professor physics emeritus, Princeton University, since 1976;
professor physics and director, Center for Theoretical Physics, University Texas, Austin, 1976-1986;
Ashbel Smith professor, University Texas, Austin, 1979-1986;
Blumberg professor, University Texas, Austin, 1981-1986;
Smith and Blumberg professor emeritus, University Texas, Austin, since 1986. Consultant and physicist on atomic energy projects Princeton University, 1939-1942, University of Chicago, 1942, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, and Richland, Washington, 1943-1945, Los Alamos, 1950-1953. Director project Matterhorn(H-bomb) Princeton University, 1951-1953.
Guggenheim fellow, Paris and Copenhagen, 1949-1950. Summer lecturer University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Columbia University. Lorentz professor of University Leiden, 1956.
Fulbright professor Kyoto U., 1962. 1st visiting fellow Clare College Cambridge U., 1964. Ritchie lecturer Edinburgh, 1958.
Visiting professor University of California-Berkeley, 1960. Battelle professor of University Washington, 1975. I.I.Rabi visiting professor, Columbia, U., 1983, science adviser United States Senate delegate to 3d annual conference North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentarians, Paris, 1957.
Member of advisory committee Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1957-1965, University of California, Los Alamos and Livermore, 1972-1977. Vice president International Union Physics, 1951-1954. Chairman joint committee American Physical Society and American Philosophical Society on history theoretical physics in 20th Century, 1960-1972.
Science advisory board United States Air Force, 1961, 62. Chairman Department Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Project 137, (now Project Jason) 1958. Member United States General Advisory Committee Arms Control and Disarmament, 1969-1972, 74-77.
( This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate...)
( Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory ...)
( First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark grad...)
(Written by two of the field's true pioneers, Spacetime Ph...)
( Written by two of the field's true pioneers, Spacetime ...)
(Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, and pioneer...)
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Trustee Battelle Memorial Institute, 1959—1989, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, 1977—1992, Unitarian Church, 1965. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science (director 1965-1968), American Physical Society (president 1966, Einstein prize 2003). Member: National Academy of Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Royal Society (London), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, International Union Physics (vice president 1951-1954), L'Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences 1987-1990, Texas Philosophical Society, Royal Academy of Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden), Philosophical Society of Texas, American Philosophical Society (councillor 1963-1966, vice president 1971-1973, councillor 1976-1979, Franklin medal 1989), American Academy Arts and Sciences, International Astronomical Union, American Mathematics Society, Princeton Club (New York City), Century Association (New York City), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Janette Hegner, June 10, 1935. Children: Isabel Letitia Wheeler Ufford, James English, Alison Christie Wheeler Lahnston.