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I had the privilege of getting to know John Wheeler late in his career. He was a wonderful man with a wonderful joker's sense of humor, in addition to having a
by yodon 8y ago
I had the privilege of getting to know John Wheeler late in his career. He was a wonderful man with a wonderful joker's sense of humor, in addition to having a wonderful sort of OCD for an academic (a significant portion of the library in the Physics department at Princeton was dedicated to holding a copy of every book and article and proceeding referenced anywhere in the mighty book that is Misner Thorne and Wheeler, all carefully filed and categorized and organized by John Wheeler).
- gHosts 8y ago> Misner Thorne and Wheeler I always got a wee chuckle out of the fact that, probably the most massive book in the entire library, was entitled, "Gravitation".
- yodon 8y agoI've heard it described as if the pages of the longest and best organized book on the subject had been tossed in the air and sorted randomly moments before publication (I loved reading the book, but it's definitely weird to see little ones or twos in the bottom corners of every page of a book of that thickness, telling you whether to read the page on your first reading of the book or your second)