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Title: John Wheeler letter to Dave Dennison, 21-January-1956
Creator: Wheeler, John A.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956-01-21
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection: Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: In 1955, the Dave Dennison, chair of University of Michigan's physics department, wrote to John Wheeler to ask if there were any very promising graduate students at Princeton who Michigan might try to hire at the assistant professor level. Wheeler says that Misner is the best student he's seen since Feynman, but then goes on to describe Everett as also an excellent, creative, and articulate student.
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found in the John A. Wheeler papers at the American Philosophical Society.
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/81235/d84t6fg9q
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1164
Language: English
eng
Subject: Everett, Hugh III
Wheeler, John A.
Correspondence
Relation: Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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