John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was a theoretical physicist who is most well known as the person who first created the term worm hole in 1957 to describe Albert Einstein's 1916 theories (which previously did not have a name, other than the Einstein-Rosen bridge, named in 1937, which linked the two parts in space) and also the term black hole to describe an alternative theory, which he created in 1967.
Wheeler was also involved in the Manhattan Project that utilised Einstein's theory of relativity to create the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to end World War II.
Wheeler's theories related to his concept that you could create something from nothing and could also turn something into nothing, something which disagrees with the laws of physics, and which modern theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has worked to disagree with.
Wheeler rarely experimented, preferring instead simply to speak to explain his ideas and concepts, using colourful words to get his point across.
In addition to his work with black holes and the atomic bomb, Wheeler was also a pioneer of quantum gravity, with the Wheeler-deWitt equation named after him and Bryce de Witt.
As a result of Wheeler's work on black hole theory, most modern day high school science classes teach black hole theory as if it were fact, and teach some variation of Wheeler's ideas.