Physicist John Wheeler, Einstein collaborator, dead at 96

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Albert Einstein, Hideki Yukawa, John Wheeler, Homi Bhabha.

US physicist John Wheeler, one of Albert Einstein's last collaborators who helped build the atomic bomb and gave black holes their name, died at the weekend, his family said. He was 96.

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