John Wheeler
Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer
In this paper the scientist united general relativity–Einstein’s theory of gravity–with a quantum mechanical description of a pure neutron fluid. This paper was hardly noticed until the 1960s, when astrophysicists began to seriously consider that such extreme objects might exist.
The most important works are by John Wheeler, in the United States (he will be the one who gives the name to black holes), Roger Penrose in the United Kingdom and Yakov Zel'dovič in the Soviet Union.
John Wheeler
John Wheeler