Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

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Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

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Letter from Wheeler referring to his autobiographical chapter in Physics and Society in Twentieth Century America (Roger H. Stuewer, ed., University of Minnesota, 1982) and historical materials in the National Museum of Science and Technology. Respondents were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

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John Archibald Wheeler is a physicist and a pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. He studied under Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University (Ph. D., 1933) and later studied nuclear fission with Niels Bohr. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1950s-1970s]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298147 Physicist (atomic and nuclear theory, relativity theory, and cosmology). On the physics faculty at Princeton University from 1938; physicist, ...