It is with great sadness that the family of John Archibald Wheeler announces his passing on April 13th, 2008. He was 96 years old. John was born in Jacksonville, Florida on July 9th, 1911, to librarians Joseph Lewis Wheeler and Mabel Archibald Wheeler. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1933 and his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1933. John had a successful career as a physicist and historian of science, writing the two volume book, Gravitation with co-author Kip Thorne, and publishing numerous papers and books on physics. He worked on the Manhattan Project, conferring with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, and he coined the name "black hole" in 1967. John was remembered as a brilliant scientist, a compassionate teacher, and a generous man with a zest for life. He was awarded four honorary degrees, was a Fellow at both the Royal Society and the American Physical Society, and was a Trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science. John is survived by his sons, Michael and David, his grandchildren, and his great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Janette Hegner Wheeler. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the John A. Wheeler Scholarship Fund at Johns Hopkins University. Funeral arrangements are pending at this time. John will be remembered as a remarkable man whose precious life will never be forgotten.