the coiner of "black hole"

[Mark Mandel]

Professor John Wheeler, who died on Sunday aged 96, was, after Robert
Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, the most famous non-Nobel prizewinner
of the generation of scientists which developed quantum theory, though
he was perhaps best known for coining the term "black hole".

(Article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/15/db1501.xml)

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