John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Is Dead at 96

[mhartl]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html?bl&ex=1208318400&en=ab3a81da1084d9b6&ei=5087%0A

[jmzachary]

"In the summers, Dr. Wheeler would retire with his extended family to a compound on High Island, Me., to indulge his taste for fireworks by shooting beer cans out of an old cannon."

Awesome! People like to shoot that kind of stuff out of PVC pipes around my parts.

[aswanson]

Sad. He was working on an interesting problem relating to time and the two-slit light experiment, last I heard.