JOHN N. WHEELER

Abner Shimony, V. L. Telegdi, Martinus J. G. Veltman

JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER

Michael May was a physicist working on weapons research (he would later be director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Here he responds to the published version of Hugh Everett's thesis, with a proposed friendly addition. John Wheeler does not seem to understand what May has in mind, but passes the letter on to Everett anyway. Wheeler also invites Everett to give a seminar at Princeton on his thesis, several years after his graduation.

Niels Henrik David Bohr

During the fall of 1957, Niels Bohr visited the U.S. In order to deliver several lectures at M.I.T. Here he is writing to John Wheeler to let him know his plans. Wheeler encouraged Hugh Everett to meet with Bohr while Bohr was in the U.S., but it seems Everett did not follow up on this opportunity.

Mark Kon

Aage Petersen

In spring of 1956, John Wheeler was in residence at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden, Netherlands. In April, 1956 a copy of the long version of Hugh Everett's thesis was sent to Niels Bohr's Institute; the next month, Wheeler traveled to Copenhagen to discuss the thesis with Bohr and others. This is a letter from Aage Petersen thanking Wheeler for his visit and returning the copy of Everett's thesis that Wheeler had sent to Bohr in April.