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Oath of Allegiance

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John Wheeler Scientist

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123. John von Neumann (Part 2)	1	844	01:08
124. Eugene Wigner, Michael Polanyi	1	591	01:52
125. The doctrine of limited war		325	02:51
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127. Nixon and Ford		314	03:36
128. At 85, John Wheeler's goals for the future		910	00:46
129. Current involvement with students		562	00:59
130. Acknowledgments		504	00:40

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I'd like to express thanks to the people that never get recognized enough, the little people; the secretaries, the assistants, the shop people, that make the world go around, who establish a level of cooperation that makes this world go. It makes one proud of the human animal to know those people.

John Wheeler, one of the world's most influential physicists, is best known for coining the term 'black holes', for his seminal contributions to the theories of quantum gravity and nuclear fission, as well as for his mind-stretching theories and writings on time, space and gravity.

Title: Acknowledgments

Listeners: Ken Ford

Ken Ford took his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1953 and worked with Wheeler on a number of research projects, including research for the Hydrogen bomb. He was Professor of Physics at the University of California and Director of the American Institute of Physicists. He collaborated with John Wheeler in the writing of Wheeler's autobiography, 'Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics' (1998).

Duration: 41 seconds

Date story recorded: December 1996

Date story went live: 24 January 2008