{"id":2696,"date":"2009-04-14T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2009-04-14T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T14:18:54","slug":"john-wheeler-special-issue-of-physics-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/04\/14\/john-wheeler-special-issue-of-physics-today\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wheeler special issue of Physics Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptonline.aip.org\/dbt\/dbt.jsp?KEY=PHTOAD&amp;Volume=62&amp;Issue=4\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ptonline.aip.org\/journals\/doc\/PHTOAD-home\/jrnls\/images\/medcover04_2009.jpg?resize=241%2C312\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a>For those interested in the history of recent physics, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ptonline.aip.org\/dbt\/dbt.jsp?KEY=PHTOAD&amp;Volume=62&amp;Issue=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April issue<\/a> of <em>Physics Today <\/em>is dedicated to the career of John Wheeler (1911-2008), a major figure in the last 2\/3 of 20th-century American physics.\u00a0 He worked on problems of the nucleus and in the design of thermonuclear weapons, and at the troublesome border between quantum physics and general relativity.\u00a0 The issue includes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianford.com\/kenford\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Ford&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;John Wheeler&#8217;s work on ion particles, nuclei, and weapons&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ptonline.aip.org\/journals\/doc\/PHTOAD-ft\/vol_62\/iss_4\/29_1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available for free<\/a> at the <em>Physics Today <\/em>website).<\/p>\n<p>Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and Wojciech Zurek&#8217;s &#8220;John Wheeler, relativity, and quantum information&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon State history of science graduate student (and former Merchant Marine captain) Terry Christensen&#8217;s, &#8220;John Wheeler&#8217;s mentorship: An enduring legacy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two articles by Wheeler himself drawn from the archives: &#8220;Mechanism of fission&#8221; (1967), a retrospective on early fission research; and &#8220;Introducing the Black Hole&#8221; (1971, with Remo Ruffini), a semi-technical introduction to the physics of black holes.<\/p>\n<p>The Niels Bohr Library and Archives, incidentally, has two transcripts of interviews with Wheeler online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/ohilist\/4958.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one from 1967<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/ohilist\/5908_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one from 1993<\/a>, which served as notes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Geons-Black-Holes-Quantum-Foam\/dp\/0393319911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wheeler&#8217;s autobiography<\/a> (co-written with interviewer Ford).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in the history of recent physics, the April issue of Physics Today is dedicated to the career of John Wheeler (1911-2008), a major figure in the last 2\/3 of 20th-century American physics.\u00a0 He worked on problems of the nucleus and in the design of thermonuclear weapons, and at the troublesome border between<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; 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