Filling a Black Hole

John A. Wheeler, the theoretical physicist who coined the term black hole as well as conceiving of wormholes and quantum foam, will soon be full of wormholes, succumbing to pneumonia at the age of 96. Wheeler’s collaborators included Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller and Albert Einstein. Bohr, Wheeler and Einstein spearheaded the efforts to build the atomic bomb, with Wheeler motivated by a note from his brother, fighting in Europe, that read simply “Hurry up.” Joe Wheeler died in Italy.