John Archibald Wheeler was born on July 9, 1911, in Jacksonville, Florida, and passed away on April 13, 2008, in Hightstown, New Jersey; his influence on gravitational physics and science in general will remain forever. Among his many and important contributions to physics, he was one of the fathers of the renaissance of General Relativity. After a golden starting age of General Relativity, a few years after the Einstein’s papers of 1915–1916, Einstein’s gravitational theory was for many years, to quote the preface of a 1960 book of General Relativity [1], confined to “an ivory tower…and no doubt many a relativist looks forward to the day when the governments will seek his opinion on important questions”.
Introduction to General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler
CIUFOLINI, Ignazio;
2010-01-01
Abstract
John Archibald Wheeler was born on July 9, 1911, in Jacksonville, Florida, and passed away on April 13, 2008, in Hightstown, New Jersey; his influence on gravitational physics and science in general will remain forever. Among his many and important contributions to physics, he was one of the fathers of the renaissance of General Relativity. After a golden starting age of General Relativity, a few years after the Einstein’s papers of 1915–1916, Einstein’s gravitational theory was for many years, to quote the preface of a 1960 book of General Relativity [1], confined to “an ivory tower…and no doubt many a relativist looks forward to the day when the governments will seek his opinion on important questions”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
