this is a good article on j a wheeler however the information regarding geometrodynamics is not accurate especially the following statement wheeler abandoned it as fruitless in the s as a matter of fact wheeler kept using the term geometrodynamics to describe einstein's theory of general relativity till his last days for example in gravitation and inertia a book written with the italian physicist i ciufolini in and which was missing from the bibliography the authors keep referring to einstein geometrodynamics the title of chapter throughout the the book chapter is entitled tests ofeinstein geometrodynamics chapter is the initial value problem in einstein geometrodynamics and chapter some highlights of the past and a summary of geometrodynamics and inertia this proves that wheeler did not abandon the concept at all in the s georges e melki