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Filtering by: Creator Peck, Edward C. (Edward Coit), 1894- License All rights reserved Resource Type Masters Thesis

Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

Creator:

Christensen, Terry M.

Abstract:

John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

of The Cambridge History of Science Series, General eds. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers