So when I lived in Princeton at the IDA, for the weirdest set of synchronicities you can imagine, which I won't bore you with, I met and befriended John Archibald Wheeler.
John Wheeler is the most famous gravitation physicist after Einstein in the 20th century.
I became a regular visitor, a companion, and all of these people that are involved in all that stuff went to that conference because John Wheeler invited them,
He was Wheeler's student.
Wheeler is responsible for more Nobel laureates than any professor I know of in the United States.