John Archibald Wheeler: References & Edit History
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Apr 09, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 05, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 15, 2024 | ||
| Invalidated site: American Institute of Physics - John Wheeler. | Jul 08, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Atomic Heritage Foundation - Biography of John Wheeler. | Apr 10, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of John Archibald Wheeler. | Apr 10, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 13, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term �Black Hole,� Is Dead at 96. | Feb 17, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Independent - Professor John Wheeler: Titan of 20th-Century Physics Who Coined the Term 'Black Hole'. | Feb 17, 2017 | ||
| In reference to his involvement with the term black hole, changed "came up with" to "popularized." |
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Dec 09, 2014 | |
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of John Archibald Wheeler. | Jun 05, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Princeton University - Biography of John Archibald Wheeler. | Jun 05, 2011 | ||
| Added books Gravitation and Inertia and Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics. Added gloss on Gravitation. |
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Dec 15, 2010 | |
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 14, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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