Another passing

Sometimes we lose someone important that few were aware of. But they shape our lives, none the less.

Wheeler rubbed elbows with colossal figures in science such as Albert Einstein and Danish scientist Niels Bohr, with whom Wheeler worked in the 1930s and '40s.

"For me, he was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing," Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Max Tegmark told The New York Times.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/15/obit.johnston.ap/index.html

the last of the nine old men