John Wheeler is a it's a giant of my discipline when he was young he was a street collaborator of Niels Bohr who is the father of quantum theory John Wheeler was instrumental for our understanding of the nuclei of atoms work. next we have a card from the 20th century physicist John Wheeler tell us why this card means so much to you and I was little unknown Italian student in the hippie commune studying on books eaten by mice and trying to write do my physics.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.
He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.
They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosophers of the past, the importance of questioning our reality, the significance of a typewriter in his writing career, and his admiration for the theoretical physicist John Wheeler.
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