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Catalog Number: Wheeler John Archibald B45Close-up of John Wheeler standing at the edge of Black Hole on the Bay of Fundy during a visit to Acadia University to give the Huggins Science Seminar lecture. September 17, 1981. Credit: Photograph by Roy L. Bishop, Acadia University, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. Please contact Roy Bishop at roy@xcountry.tv for permission to publish this image.

Published August 20, 2013 in Johnny and Oppie

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