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Signed w/ inscription by physicist J.A. Wheeler

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Author: Wheeler, John Archibald and Kenneth Ford
Title: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
Place Published: New York
Publisher:W.W. Norton & Company
Date Published: [1998]
Description:

Boards, jacket. First Edition.

Signed by John Archibald Wheeler with inscription on front free endpaper reading "To Arthur Singer and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a thousand thanks for the encouragement that made this project possible. John Archibald Wheeler / 8 Sept. 1998, at High Island". "In this charming memoir, Wheeler tells us how, at age 27, he worked with the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr to develop the theory of nuclear fission and went on to become a key figure in the Manhattan Project of World War II. With his student Richard Feynman, Wheeler reformulated the theory of electricity and magnetism with insights about motion backward in time that set Feynman on course to a Nobel Prize." - publisher.

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