Further Antedating of "Black Hole"

[Joel S. Berson]

Is it not possible that the 1964 _Science News Letter_ article uses
the term "black hole" as coined by Wheeler then, and the 1967 and
1968 quotations are later uses?

Joel

At 4/16/2008 02:00 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>Here's a more notable antedating, since it casts into serious
>question whether Wheeler really was the coiner:
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>1964 _Science News Letter_ 18 Jan. 39 (JSTOR)  Because a degenerate
>star is so dense, its gravitational field is very strong.  According
>to Einstein's general theory of relativity, as mass is added to a
>degenerate star a sudden collapse will take place and the intense
>gravitational field of the star will close in on itself.  Such a
>star then forms a "black hole" in the universe.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>Editor
>Yale Book of Quotations
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>Physicist John Wheeler, age 96, just died.  His NYT obit (among others)
>credits him with coining the term "black hole".
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>OED has 1968.
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>"'Black Holes' May Be Key to Universe" (Associated Press) _The Hartford
>Courant_; Dec 30, 1967; pg. 13A col 1
>"The universe, said Dr. John A. Wheeler, may be dotted with "black
>holes," the remnants of stars that have collapsed upon themselves,
>matter so tightly packed that it no longer can be seen, small pockets of
>something that look like nothing."
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