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Title
John Wheeler notes on quantization of gravitation and electromagnetism, with Hugh Everett comments, 15-October-1955
Creator
Wheeler, John A.
Contributor
Everett, Hugh, annotator
Date Created and/or Issued
1955-10-15
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information
Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description
Scope/Content: When Hugh Everett was a graduate student, John Wheeler was principally interested in the problem of quantum gravity. This document is Everett's copy of a set of notes Wheeler typed, based on conversations with one of his students, Charles Misner, and with Joseph Weber, a professor at the University of Maryland who was visiting Princeton for the 1955-6 academic year.
Scope/Content: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8xw48904
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1248
Language
English
eng
Subject
Wheeler, John A.
Everett, Hugh III
Misner, Charles
Relation
Hugh Everett III Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Related Materials

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