Richard Feynman

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by James Gleick  · 1 Jan 1992  · 795pp  · 215,529 words

my mother and father, Beth and Donen I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. —Richard Feynman CONTENTS PROLOGUE FAR ROCKAWAY •Neither Country nor City •A Birth and a Death •It’s Worth It •At School •All Things Are Made of Atoms

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. Robert Oppenheimer made speeches about his shadowed soul, and other physicists began to feel his uneasiness at having handed humanity the power of self-destruction. Richard Feynman, younger and not so responsible, suffered a more private grief. He felt he possessed knowledge that set him alone and apart. It gnawed at him

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emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber. Feynman resented the polished myths of most scientific history, submerging the false steps and halting uncertainties under a

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two groups, those who had played with chemistry sets and those who had played with radios. Chemistry sets had their appeal, but a boy like Richard Feynman, loving diagrams and maps, could see that the radio was its own map, a diagram of itself. Its parts expressed their function, once he learned

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children and scientists. None of which could fully account for the presence of laboratory, rheostat, and lab assistant—tokens of a certain vivid cultural stereotype. Richard Feynman was relentless in filling his bedroom with the trappings and systems of organized science. Neither Country nor City Charmed lives were led by the children

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, for the sacrifices of his parents a child owes no debt—or rather the debt is paid to his own children in turn. The adult Richard Feynman became an adept teller of stories about himself, and through these stories came a picture of his father as a man transmitting a set of

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visible to the naked eye. If we do think about the atoms in us and around us, the persistence of solid stone remains a mystery. Richard Feynman asked a high-school teacher (and never heard a satisfactory reply), “How do sharp things stay sharp all this time if the atoms are always

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this difficulty, and Schwinger handled it in the prescribed manner: he simply discarded the offending term and moved on to equation 21. Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman, exact contemporaries, obsessed as sixteen-year-olds with the abstract mental world of a scientist, had already set out on different paths. Schwinger studying the

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different from Dirac’s more detached, more aesthetic tone. “You Americans!” he said. “Always trying to find a use for something.” The Aura This was Richard Feynman nearing the crest of his powers. At twenty-three he was a few years shy of the time when his vision would sweep hawklike across

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, having received his degree and his new status, he wrote back to his mother, proudly updating his letterhead by penning “Ph.D.” after the printed “Richard Feynman.” He tried to respond reasonably to each argument. Neither Smyth nor the university physician were concerned about any danger to his health, he said. If

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. At first, though, ground zero stood for nothing but what it was, a mirrored surface, mildly radioactive, where earlier had stood a tower of steel. Richard Feynman, still not much more than a boy, wrote, “It is a wonderful sight from the air to see the green area with the crater at

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licenses. Not all the procedures devised in the name of security helped allay the suspicions of the local population. Any local policeman who pulled over Richard Feynman on the road north of Santa Fe would see the driver’s license of a nameless Engineer identified only as Number 185, residing at Special

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those charged with setting the agenda. Other participants were Oppenheimer, Bethe, Wheeler, Rabi, Teller, and several representatives of the younger generation, including Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman. So two dozen suit-jacketed physicists met on a Sunday afternoon on the East Side of New York and motored across Long Island in a

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arrival—the wild country in this case being the stretch of exurban New York lying between Ithaca and Rochester. He traveled with a theoretician called Richard Feynman: “the first example I have met of that rare species, the native American scientist.” He has developed a private version of the quantum theory … ; in

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Dr. Feynman.” On one occasion the bureau discovered a “contact by Oppenheimer with one ‘FINEMAN’ (phonetic)” and surmised “that this ‘FINEMAN’ is in fact subject RICHARD FEYNMAN.” Officials discussed the possibility of turning him into a confidential informant against Oppenheimer. They authorized a discreet approach and then placed Feynman on the “no

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theory with Murray Gell-Mann at the California Institute of Technology in the 1950s, before standard texts have become available, discovers unpublished lecture notes by Richard Feynman, circulating samizdat style. He asks Gell-Mann about them. Gell-Mann says no, Dick’s methods are not the same as the methods used here

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first American woman in space; Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon; Chuck Yeager, a famous former test pilot; and, a last-minute choice, Richard Feynman, a professor who brought to the next day’s newspaper accounts the tag “Nobel Prize winner.” Armstrong said on the day of his appointment that

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IT DONE BY A SPECIALIST: Henry Barenblatt to Arline Feynman, 19 April 1945 and 23 April 1945, PERS. 195 A DOCTOR AT LOS ALAMOS TOLD RICHARD: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 3 May 1945. 195 THE SAME DOCTOR: Ibid. 195 PS. 59-TO-BE: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 15 May 1945. 195 HE

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, 800–801. 378 THE WESTERN UNION “TELEFAX": Erik Rundberg to Feynman, 21 October 1965, PERS. 378 THE FIRST CALL HAD COME: F-W, 801; “Dr. Richard Feynman Nobel Laureate!” California Tech, 22 October 1965, 1. 378 WILL YOU PLEASE TELL US: F-W, 804. 378 WHAT APPLICATIONS DOES THIS PAPER: “Dr

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. Richard Feynman Nobel Laureate!” 378 LISTEN, BUDDY, IF I COULD TELL YOU: F-W, 804. 378 JULIAN SCHWINGER CALLED: Schwinger, interview. 378 I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE

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HAPPY: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, n.d., PERS. 379 [FEYNMAN:] CONGRATULATIONS: “Dr. Richard Feynman Nobel Laureate!” 379 THERE WERE CABLES FROM SHIPBOARD: F-W, 806. 379 HE PRACTICED JUMPING BACKWARD: Ibid., 808–9. 380 FEYNMAN REALIZED THAT HE HAD

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18:149. Fox, David. 1952. “The Tiniest Time Traveler.” Astounding Science Fiction (magazine). Francis, Patricia. 1989. “Science as a Way of Seeing: The Case of Richard Feynman.” Manuscript, University of Maryland. Franklin, Allan. 1979. “The Discovery and Nondiscovery of Parity Nonconservation.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 10:201. ——. 1990. Experiment

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Genius. London: Strahan. Gieryn, Thomas F., and Figert, Anne E. 1990. “Ingredients for a Theory of Science in Society: O-Rings, Ice Water, C-Clamp, Richard Feynman and the New York Times.” In Theories of Science and Society. Edited by Susan E. Cozzens and Thomas F. Gieryn. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press

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. Hiley, B. J., and Peat, F. David. 1987. Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Hillis, W. Daniel. 1989. “Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine.” Physics Today, February, 78. Hofstadter, Douglas R. 1979. Gödel, Escher, Bach. New York: Basic Books. ——. 1985. Metamagical Themas. New York: Basic

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. The Enigma of Time. Bristol: Adam Hilger. Laurence, William L. 1959. Men and Atoms. New York: Simon and Schuster. Leighton, Ralph. 1991. Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey. New York: Norton. Lentricchia, Frank. 1980. After the New Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago. Leplin, J., ed. 1984. Scientific Realism. Berkeley: University

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. 1971. “Jewish Academics in the United States.” American Jewish Yearbook, 89. Lombroso, Cesare. 1891. The Man of Genius. London: Walter Scott. Lopes, J. Leite. 1988. “Richard Feynman in Brazil: Recollections.” Manuscript. Lopes, J. Leite, and Feynman, Richard. 1952. “On the Pseudoscalar Meson Theory of the Deuteron.” Symposium on New Research Techniques in

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of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development. Translated by Thomas J. McCormack. Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court. Maddox, John. 1988. “The Death of Richard Feynman.” Nature 331:653. Mann, Thomas. 1927. The Magic Mountain. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Modern Library. Marshak, Robert E. 1970. “The Rochester

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Scientific Thought. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. Mehra, Jagdish, ed. 1973. The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Dordrecht: Reidel. Mehra, Jagdish. 1988. “My Last Encounter with Richard Feynman.” Talk at Department of Physics, Cornell University, 24 February. Melsen, Andrew G. van. 1952. From Atomos to Atom: The History of the Concept “Atom.” Translated

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J. 1961. Mathematical Machines. New York: Columbia University Press. Nash, Stephen G., ed. 1990. A History of Scientific Computing. New York: ACM. New Yorker. 1988. “Richard Feynman.” 14 March, 30. Nisbet, Robert. 1980. History of the Idea of Progress. New York: Basic Books. Noyes, H. P.; Hafner, E. M.; Yekutieli, C; and

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. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: British Broadcasting Corporation: Excerpt from” Fun to Imagine,” an interview between Richard Feynman and Christopher Sykes as broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1983. Used by permission. David Higham Associates: Four lines from “Tattered Serenade,” from Collected

Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought

by Barbara Tversky  · 20 May 2019  · 426pp  · 117,027 words

our own behavior. And we use it to imagine worlds that have never been. Just as meanings can be wordless, so can thinking, an insight Richard Feynman came to as a child: When I was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, I had a friend named Bernie Walker. We both had

The Grand Design

by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow  · 14 Jun 2010  · 124pp  · 40,697 words

is typical of the type of phenomena that cannot be encompassed by classical science but are described by what is called quantum physics. In fact, Richard Feynman wrote that the double-slit experiment like the one we described above “contains all the mystery of quantum mechanics.” The principles of quantum physics were

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physics agrees with observation. It has never failed a test, and it has been tested more than any other theory in science. In the 1940s Richard Feynman had a startling insight regarding the difference between the quantum and Newtonian worlds. Feynman was intrigued by the question of how the interference pattern in

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version was created was electromagnetism. The quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, called quantum electrodynamics, or QED for short, was developed in the 1940s by Richard Feynman and others, and has become a model for all quantum field theories. As we’ve said, according to classical theories, forces are transmitted by fields

Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms

by Mark Spitznagel  · 9 Aug 2021  · 231pp  · 64,734 words

such practical objectives by gratuitous mathematical formulas. Modern quantitative finance suffers from a certain science or physics envy. After all, according to the American physicist Richard Feynman, “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.” Well, practical results are precisely why

Stephen Hawking

by Leonard Mlodinow  · 8 Sep 2020  · 209pp  · 68,587 words

the universe were unrealistic. That kept them occupied, but nobody paid much attention to their papers. The low quality of the work prompted Caltech physicist Richard Feynman to write his wife from a 1962 conference on gravity in Warsaw, “Because there are no experiments this field is not an active one…there

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Time, “I was afraid that if Bekenstein found out about it, he would use it as a further argument to support his ideas.” But as Richard Feynman used to say, physicists don’t tell nature how things behave, nature shows physicists. So Stephen eventually accepted that Bekenstein was correct: black holes have

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quantum theories and for the most part ignored general relativity. They were the two most influential theoretical physicists of their era, Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman. A decade after Stephen’s Fairchild year, I arrived at Caltech and had the office next to Murray, and down the hall from Feynman. Gell

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, he would have come in at just number three among the physicists on the fourth floor of the Lauritsen Laboratory—behind Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman. Still, Stephen was happy to have become a spokesperson for his field. What was more important was that probably more than any other physicist alive

The Infinity Puzzle

by Frank Close  · 29 Nov 2011  · 449pp  · 123,459 words

Wolfgang Pauli collaborated with Carl Jung, the psychologist, in a fruitless attempt to find deep significance in its value.26 The Point of Infinity 27 Richard Feynman himself described it as “one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man,” adding

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youngest members of the audience at Shelter Island: Still under thirty, and already veterans of the scientific war just ended, they were Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman. Only later would it become known that in Japan, completely independently, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga had already solved the puzzle. schwinger and feynman Julian Schwinger and

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Richard Feynman were exact contemporaries. Born in 1918, in New York City, both were brilliant theorists, but there the comparisons end. Schwinger, from Upper Manhattan, was a

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who would almost single-handedly redefine the frontiers of particle physics. However, that would come later, as we shall see. Meanwhile, unaware of these developments, Richard Feynman had been traveling in Brazil that summer and also had realized that V – A offered a mathematically tantalizing, though apparently empirically useless, possibility. On his

Quantum Computing for Everyone

by Chris Bernhardt  · 19 Mar 2019  · 211pp  · 57,618 words

of balls colliding with one another and off various walls. It conjures up images of particles interacting. This is one of the ideas that inspired Richard Feynman to become interested in the idea of quantum computing. Feynman wrote some of the earliest papers on the subject. Chapter 7. This chapter begins the

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. But after this we look at some ideas that are usually not part of the standard introduction. In the 1970s, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman became interested in computing and, for a few years in the early 1980s, he gave a course on computation at the California Institute of Technology

The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything

by John Gribbin  · 29 Nov 2009  · 185pp  · 55,639 words

detected at point B we cannot know exactly how it got from A to B, unless it is watched all the way along its path. Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the California Institute of Technology, applied this quantum-mechanical view to the history of particles as presented in the

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constant, h, is measured in. Figure 1.5 Classical (that is Newtonian) physics says that a particle follows a definite trajectory from A to B. Richard Feynman's quantum mechanical ‘sum over histories’ approach says that we must calculate the contribution of every possible path and add them together. Also known as

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Bevatron, before he decided to concentrate on theory and began to investigate physicists’ understanding of the nature of the material world, under the guidance of Richard Feynman. As a newcomer to the field, he perhaps lacked some of the caution, or tact, of his elders, and when he realized that the eightfold

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appointed at the august institution. Schwinger made major contributions to the development of QED, and in 1965 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, of Tokyo University, for this work. 3 So Schwinger had the ideal background to pick up the Yang-Mills idea and

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himself, by a roundabout route, a set of gauge equations equivalent to the Yang-Mills model of fields, and although confused by a discussion with Richard Feynman in 1966, in which Feynman advocated a different approach to the problems of particle physics, he eventually decided to follow up a suggestion made by

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cosmology. Gribbin, J., Q is for Quantum, Weidenfeld, London, 1998. A–Z guide to the world of particles and fields. Gribbin, J. and Gribbin, M., Richard Feynman: A Life in Science, Penguin, London and Plume, New York, 1997. A life which touched on just about every aspect of physics from 1940 to

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And, indeed, shadow sleptons, shadow squarks and shadow bosinos; SUSY itself would be duplicated in the shadow world. 12 This was first spelled out by Richard Feynman in the 1960s, in a series of lectures he gave for graduate students at Caltech; his lectures on gravity were only published in the mid

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

by Emanuel Derman  · 13 Oct 2011  · 240pp  · 60,660 words

PhD thesis to test the Weinberg-Salam Model in the early 1970s, I carried out each calculation using Feynman diagrams, the cartoonlike representations invented by Richard Feynman in the late 1940s to systematize and enumerate the ways particles interact during collisions. Using a formal set of rules that Feynman developed with his

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of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade. —Richard Feynman, Lectures on Physics The historic achievement of James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist with a very practical streak, was the unification of

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satisfactorily cleaned up years later by Augustin-Louis Cauchy and his contemporaries. In the late 1940s, reconnoitering around the technical difficulties of the Dirac sea, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Shin’ichiro Tomonaga found an ingenious way to suppress the technical infinities of quantum electrodynamics by means of a judicious combination of

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

by Richard P. Feynman and Jeffrey Robbins  · 1 Jan 1999  · 261pp  · 86,261 words

to write a living line, must sweat, . . . For a good poet’s made, as well as born.” What have Jonson and Shakespeare to do with Richard Feynman? Simply this. I can say as Jonson said, “I did love this man this side idolatry as much as any.” Fate gave me the tremendous

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breathless by the lecture (even Einstein would have been impressed, I think). For the first time in my life I felt a smidgen of what Richard Feynman called “the kick in the discovery,” the sudden feeling (probably akin to an epiphany, albeit in this case a vicarious one) that I had grasped

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theory of nuclear reactions, especially for his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars. Ed. †In 1965, the Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin–Itiro Tomonaga for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, and its deep consequences for the physics of elementary particles. Ed. 2

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one scientist, to investigate the cause of the accident and to recommend steps to prevent such a disaster from ever happening again. The fact that Richard Feynman was that one scientist may have made the difference between answering the question of why the Challenger failed and eternal mystery. Feynman was gutsier than

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, and those pesky infinities that gum up so many equations. “I think the theory is simply a way to sweep the difficulties under the rug,” Richard Feynman said. “I am, of course, not sure of that.” It sounds like the kind of criticism, ritually tempered, that comes from the audience after a

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js, slightly violet-bluish ns, and dark brown xs flying around. And I wonder what the hell it must look like to the students. 12 RICHARD FEYNMAN BUILDS A UNIVERSE In a previously unpublished interview made under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feynman reminisces about his

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salesman for a uniform company in New York City. On May 11, 1918, he welcomed the birth of his son Richard. Forty-seven years later, Richard Feynman received the Nobel Prize for Physics. In many ways, Mel Feynman had a lot to do with that accomplishment, as

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Richard Feynman relates. FEYNMAN: Well, before I was born, he [my father] said to my mother that “this boy is going to be a scientist.” You can’

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the world and the way to look at it which I found was deeply scientific for a man who had no direct scientific training. NARRATOR: Richard Feynman is now professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where he has been since 1950. Part of his time he spends

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addition, mathematics by itself had a great appeal for me. I loved it all my life. [. . .] NARRATOR: After graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman moved approximately 400 miles southwest to Princeton University, where he would eventually get his Ph.D. It was there, at the age of 24 that

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you agree, Professor Einstein?” Einstein said, “No-o-o-o,” and that was the nicest no I ever heard. NARRATOR: It was at Princeton that Richard Feynman learned that even if he lived his entire life in the world of mathematics and theoretical physics, there was another world out there that would

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uranium isotopes was indeed theoretically possible, another method was eventually used to produce uranium-235 for the atomic bomb. Nevertheless, there was still plenty for Richard Feynman and his high-level theorizing to do at the main laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, charged with developing the bomb. After the war, he

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okay as a philosopher? NARRATOR: In this edition of the Future for Science–a taped series of interviews with Nobel laureates–you’ve heard Dr. Richard Feynman of the California Institute of Technology. The series has been prepared under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ______ *John Archibald

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