[FPSPACE] Black-hole pioneer John Wheeler dies at 96

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Black-hole pioneer John Wheeler dies at 96

Physicist also helped develop an atomic bomb during World War II

University of Texas Wheeler, who died at 96, was "the only physics superhero 
still standing," a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
was quoted saying.

updated 2:15 p.m. ET, Mon., April. 14, 2008

HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - Physicist John A. Wheeler, who had a key role in the 
development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes 
their name, has died at 96.

Wheeler, for many years a professor at Princeton University, died of 
pneumonia Sunday at his home in Hightstown, said his daughter, Alison 
Wheeler Lahnston.

Wheeler rubbed elbows with colossal figures in science such as Albert 
Einstein and Danish scientist Niels Bohr, with whom Wheeler worked in the 
1930s and 1940s.

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