John Wheeler in 1991 Below left: John Wheeler (third from left)
walks through the woods at the Institute for Advanced Study
with, from left, fellow physicists Albert Einstein of the
institute, Hideki Yukawa of Kyoto University in Japan and Homi
Bhabha of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India.
Photos: Courtesy of the Wheeler family Leading physicist John
Wheeler dies at age 96 Posted April 14, 2008; 05:40 p.m. John
Archibald Wheeler, a legend in physics who coined the term
"black hole" and whose myriad scientific contributions figured
in many of the research advances of the 20th century, has died.
Wheeler, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus at
Princeton University, was 96. He succumbed to pneumonia on
Sunday, April 13, at his home in Hightstown, N.J. Over a long,
productive scientific life, he was known for his drive to
address big, overarching questions in physics, subjects which he
liked to say merged with philosophical questions about the
origin of matter, information and the unive