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  SPT v8n3: Feynman Unprocessed by Chris Toumey
Feynman, include pieces that are obviously transcripts of interviews and conversations which have been edited to minimize the difference between the spoken and the written word.
Feynman explained that he was resigning because he was uncomfortable with the Academy's elitist situation.
A note from the editor, his daughter Michelle Feynman, says that the problem of the son who wrote too seldom was solved, not by a quantity of letter-writing, but by having the mother move to Pasadena to be near her son.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v8n3/toumey.html   (3456 words)

  
  Richard Feynman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feynman gained great pleasure from coming up with such a "freshman level" explanation of the connection between spin and statistics (that groups of particles with spin 1/2 "repel", whereas groups with integer spin "clump"), a question he pondered in his own lectures and which he solved in the 1986 Dirac memorial lecture.
Feynman did not dispute the quark model; for example, when the 5th quark was discovered, Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a 6th quark, which was duly discovered in the decade after his death.
Feynman was requested to serve on the presidential Rogers Commission which investigated the Challenger disaster of 1986.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Feynman   (4068 words)

  
 The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
Feynman's next work was a reformulation of quantum mechanics in a new way, which was not only more elegant than the methods of the quantum theory pioneers Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Dirac, but also more directly applicable to QED because of its intrinsic accord with the rules of special relativity.
Feynman devised simple pictorial diagrams to help keep track of all the possible processes by which an electron can pass from A to B. The Feynman method thus harks back to the basic principle of classical mechanics: least action.
FEYNMAN told a friend afterward that no one could ever understand the joy he experienced in caring for her during the last year of her life.
partners.nytimes.com /books/97/09/21/reviews/feynman-genius.html   (1592 words)

  
 Richard Phillips Feynman
In 1945, Arline died in the hospital in Albuquerque.
Feynman was consumed with the problem of collisions at extreme high energy of heavy particles.
Feynman figured out what was wrong, and announced in during a nationally televised hearing of the commission.
www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1715/a_memorial_to_richard_phil.html   (555 words)

  
 World and I - Richard Feynman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Feynman had a deep grasp of what to expect that day, for he had headed up the team that performed all the tremendously complicated calculations required to prepare the first fission bomb.
Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965, with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga, for his contributions to the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, which deals with the interactions between light and charged particles in general and between light and electrons in particular.
Feynman also believed that he would be remembered most as a teacher When a series of his lectures was collected and published by Caltech as Feynman's Lectures on Physics, it became an immediate classic and sold well throughout the world.
worldandi.misto.cz /_MAIL_/feynman.html   (3226 words)

  
 Richard Feynman | Biography | atomicarchive.com
Feynman received a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939, and was named Putnam Fellow that same year.
Feynman's collaboration on the latter with Murray Gell-Mann was seen as seminal, as the weak interaction was neatly described.
Feynman is also known for his work on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident investigation, shocking the world by demonstrating the failure of the O-Rings.
www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Feynman.shtml   (515 words)

  
 American Scientist Online - Sincerely, Richard P. Feynman
Feynman immediately knew the explanation: The bomb was so far away that its "sound track" had taken that long to arrive.
That letter is immediately—and unexpectedly—followed by a letter Feynman wrote to his first wife, Arline, 16 months after her death (a letter that is well worn, Michelle Feynman notes, indicating that he reread it many times).
Feynman experimented with washers and threads before replying, observed the effect in question, admitted to surprise at its strength, did the calculations—which nevertheless suggested an utterly conventional if counterintuitive explanation (lengthening threads and unnoticed hand motions)—and wrote back suggesting further experiments.
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 Contact (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The degrees within a triangle is a fixed consequence of Euclidean geometry; God may choose to build a universe that follows different geometrical axioms, but once the axioms are chosen, the results are essentially determined.
It is also worth recalling a question Richard Feynman raised while exploring the capabilities of mechanical calculators at Los Alamos, during the Manhattan Project.
Gleefully, Feynman pointed out that if you actually do divide 1 by 243, you do get that string of digits, so there cannot be more "information" in the long string of numbers than there is in the single number 243.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Contact_(novel)   (863 words)

  
 Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman |...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Feynman was single-minded in his devotion to science: "This [physics research] is, in my mind, of even more importance than my love for Arline" (his first wife).
Feynman even responded to at least one crank (who accused Feynman and others of suppressing the crank's views on relativity), pressing him respectfully but persistently to answer a simple question that got to the heart of the scientific issue.
Feynman" are marvelous introductions to the complex and fascinating man Feynman was, I felt that after I read through these correspondences, I had been introduced to him in a far deeper, more profound way.
www.this-is-great.com /info/fralsfjajb   (1566 words)

  
 Feynman Video #1
Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos, and the Bomb, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.
Feynman makes passing references to the fact that the book is based on a series of general lectures on QED which were first delivered in New Zealand.
Feynman had doubts about the accessibility of the lectures on QED to a general audience, and chose not to initially deliver these lectures at his native Caltech.
www.scs-intl.com /trader/feynman_video.shtm   (915 words)

  
 Richard Feynman
Feynman felt uninspired there; despairing that he had burned out, he turned to less useful, but fun problems, such as analyzing the physics of a twirling, rotating dish, as it is being balanced by a juggler.
Feynman did not dispute the quark model; for example, when the 5th quark was discovered, Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a 6th quark, which was duly discovered in the decade after his death.
Feynman was asked to serve on the presidential Rogers Commission that investigated the Challenger disaster of 1986.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/feynman.html   (2011 words)

  
 Richard Feynman
Feynman also took charge of the project's primitive computing effort, using a hybrid of new calculating machines and human workers to try to process the vast amounts of numerical computation required by the project.
Feynman's views on quantum mechanics, scientific method, the relations between science and religion, and the role of beauty and uncertainty in scientific knowledge are expressed in two models of science writing, again distilled from lectures: The Character of Physical Law (1965) and QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985).
Richard Feynman was an extraordinary man, known and loved as a teacher, friend, father, safe cracker (a most interesting story), musician, artist, and was probably the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era.
www.brew-wood.co.uk /physics/feynman.htm   (10140 words)

  
 Mr. Campos' 8th Grade Science
There was no course on quantum mechanics, a topic that Feynman was very keen to study, so together with a fellow undergraduate, T A Welton, he began to read the available texts in the spring of 1936.
In retrospect, Feynman thought that Pauli must have seen difficulties at once, for after Feynman had spent a long time working on it, he too thought that it was not satisfactory.
Feynman began work on the Manhattan project at Princeton developing a theory of how to separate Uranium 235 from Uranium 238, while his thesis supervisor Wheeler went to Chicago to work with Fermi on the first nuclear reactor.
myschoolonline.com /page/0,1871,46542-143542-50-24266,00.html   (2023 words)

  
 CIRL - Pioneers in Electricity and Magnetism: Richard Feynman
Feynman also oversaw the overhaul of computer systems used in the research and developed a way to calculate how close fissile material was to reaching a critical state.
Feynman was as well known at Los Alamos for his mischievous sense of humor as for his scientific contributions.
Feynman found significantly more fault with NASA management than did most members of the commission; his report appeared as an appendix to the report of the majority.
www.magnet.fsu.edu /education/tutorials/pioneers/feynman.html   (1018 words)

  
 braintechllc: Synopsis of recommended book for those who like biographies (lifespan and developmental psych focus)
Feynman’s mother was encouraging and accepting of his curiosity even when it endangered or disrupted their household.
Feynman and Arline married before Feynman graduated college, after she was diagnosed; they both knew Arline would not live a long life.
Feynman was adept at learning rules, and once he had learned the rules in any area (be it dating, seducing women, national security regarding the atom bomb, or academia), the rules became something to be taken advantage of for his amusement and personal benefit.
braintechllc.livejournal.com /1277.html   (2292 words)

  
 WGAHK - Don't You Have Time to Think?
The book, edited by Feynman's daughter Michelle, is a collection of hundreds of letters that he wrote to his family, friends, students, critics, colleagues and fans.
In a letter to his mother, Feynman told her that he had decided to marry Arline, who was suffering from tuberculosis.
Arline had been hospitalized in a sanatorium during her last months while he worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb.
www.warwick.org.hk /articles-12.htm   (309 words)

  
 Al Seckel on Feynman
Arline had tuberculosis and was confined to a hospital while Feynman was at Los Alamos.
Arline told Feynman that the clock was a symbol of the time that they had together and that he should always remember that.
Feynman stated that was unfamiliar with the show and was debating whether or not he should go on.
www.fotuva.org /online/seckel.htm   (2118 words)

  
 Letters reveal mind of a Nobel genius: ThePost.ie
Feynman was a prodigious and industrious correspondent, constantly sending tender notes, cutting memos, lengthy letters and massive missives to family, friends and admirers.
Arline suffered from tuberculosis and, throughout their short marriage, the couple spent a good deal of time apart.
Feynman was direct, forthright and occasionally critical on an extraordinary variety of topics ranging from the intensely important to the intensely irritating.
archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2005/07/31/story6694.asp   (610 words)

  
 Bookslut | Perfect Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited by Michelle ...
Feynman could be testy, particularly when someone wrote to him with a question without thinking hard about it first.
After Feynman had disparaged modern poets for a lack of curiosity, an admirer sent him a copy of Auden’s "After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics" and invited him to recant.
Auden’s poem," Feynman wrote in response, "only confirms his lack of response to Nature’s wonders for he himself says that he would like to know more clearly what we ‘want the knowledge for.’ We want it so we can love Nature more.
www.bookslut.com /nonfiction/2005_04_005005.php   (968 words)

  
 Welcome to Aurangzeb's Richard Feynman Website
Feynman did not want to receive the prize because he thought that the theory was its own prize but accepted it because had he refused it he would had gotten greater publicity.
Feynman suggested that they go to Sweden as ‘Museum people’ (Another one of those Feynman terms!), so he got in contact with one of the museums and it was arranged that they would go to Tuva as if they are ethnologists.
Feynman’s puzzling last words were, “I would hate to die twice.” Feynman died at age sixty-nine, at the UCLA medical center on Monday, February 15, 1988, at 10:34 p.m.
www.geocities.com /feynmang   (1460 words)

  
 Profile-Richard P. Feynman, No Ordinary Genius
Feynman did look at a few of them, but they all turned out to be equally horrifying, which cinched his decision to resign from the Commission.
Feynman were alive, he would ask … WHY they still have not addressed the problems he pointed out in the 60’s and WHY do they need National Standards and National Mandated Testing, when they are not permitted to develop excellent National Curriculum so that all children really have the same opportunities for excellence in education.
Set in Feynman's office on the weekend of his realization that he has terminal cancer, this play is an intellectual tour-de-force that captures the unique, hilarious, and puckish genius that Feynman was.
www.thenanotechnologygroup.org /index.cfm?content=120   (3644 words)

  
 Ivanov Sajt / fizika / anegdote o Feynmanu
Feynman proceeded to look through the notes, and I could see that he was registering what he was reading.
Feynman made a brief reply, and then some of his colleagues, apparently in the belief that he hadn't been paying attention and was confused, tried to defend the student.
Feynman passed quickly through most of the procedures: checking vision, hearing, etc. However, when Feynman arrived at the next booth he was confronted with one of his most hated foes: a psychiatrist.
ivantic.apnoia.org /fizika/feynman   (2565 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Feynman (Broderick) and Arline Greenbaum (Patricia Arquette) meet as teenagers and remain an item throughout his college and grad school years.
That Feynman marries her anyway, against the well-intentioned advice of his family, is the stuff of terrific romantic drama.
Since Arline comes across as a confounding cipher rather than the muse Feynman recalls, what should by all rights be an unusual and tragic love story becomes a tedious crash-course in quantum physics.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=37611   (222 words)

  
 Infinity (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The point of this movie is to portray Feynman the person, and his relationship to the love of his life, Arline Greenbaum; in this it succeeds wonderfully.
Feynman wrote that his children, who were raised in private schools and visited home only during holidays, were known well enough to him that if he were to meet one on the street, he would probably recognize that person as his child.
Matthew Braderick as Feynman explains beta decay to his wife using olives from his lunch in an approach worthy of the real Feynman.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0116635   (704 words)

  
 Richard Feynman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1942 he married his high school sweetheart, Arline Greenbaum, despite the fact that she was ill with TB.
Just because Feynman says he is pro-nuclear power, isn't any argument at all worth paying attention to because I can tell you (for I know) that Feynman really doesn't know what he is talking about when he speaks of such things.
Feynman responded, asking what he was now doing.
www.dimaggio.org /Heroes/richard_feynman.htm   (3386 words)

  
 Richard Phillips Feynman
As a junior physicist, his work on the project was relatively removed from the major action, consisting mostly of administering the computation group of human computers in the Theoretical division, and then, with Nicholas Metropolis, setting up the system for using IBM punch cards for computation.
Feynman traveled a great deal, notably to Brazil, and near the end of his life schemed to visit the obscure Russian land of Tuva, a dream that, due to Cold War bureaucratic problems, never succeededLei91.
Feynman!, he gives advice on the best way to pick up a girl in a hostess bar and drew a decoration for a massage parlor.
www.mlahanas.de /Physics/Bios/RichardPhillipsFeynman.html   (3711 words)

  
 IEEEVM: Richard Feynman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unfortunately, Arline was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and though advised against it by family and colleagues, Feynman married Arline before completing his degree to better tend to her needs.
Feynman had a short-lived marriage during the 1950s, but in the early 1960s married the woman who would see him to the end of his days, Gweneth Howarth.
Feynman was a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Science, and in 1965 was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, London.
www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/people.php?taid=&id=1234775&lid=1   (716 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: 'Infinity': Irresistible Force
Richard Feynman, one of the brains behind the A-bomb, had two passions: science and Arline Greenbaum.
Richard, a teenage egghead, is immediately smitten by Arline (effervescent Patricia Arquette), an aspiring artist bent on externalizing her beliefs via her bright, lively canvases.
Despite his parents' objections, Feynman marries Arline in a ceremony that must be sealed with a kiss on the cheek lest he also become infected.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/infinitykemp.htm   (355 words)

  
 Review: Infinity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However, Feynman himself once said, "the way to hell is paved with good intentions", and this may be a good example.
Over the protests of his family, who are afraid that he might contract the disease, Richard decides to marry Arline, then accept a government job so he can support her.
Arline is, after all, an artist, so Feynman has to explain his work in a manner that she, and the audience, will understand.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/i/infinity.html   (746 words)

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