John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein's vision of a unified field theory. Together with G. Breit, Wheeler developed the concept of Breit?Wheeler process. He is also known for popularizing the term "black hole", for coining the terms "quantum foam", "wormhole", and "it from bit", and for hypothesizing the "one-electron universe". For most of his career, Wheeler was a professor at Princeton University, and was influential in mentoring a generation of physicists who made notable contributions to quantum mechanics and gravitation. 

July 9th, 1911 in Jacksonville  /  Died:   Apr 13th, 2008 - aged 96