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 Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Brooklyn to Lucille and Melville Feynman.
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)

  
 Feynman Grand Prize Page 1
To win the Feynman Grand Prize, entrants must design and construct a functional nanometer-scale robotic arm with specified performance characteristics, and also must design and construct a functional nanometer-scale computing device capable of adding two 8-bit binary numbers.
Funds for the $250,000 Feynman Grand Prize have been donated to Foresight Institute by individuals interested in advancing the progress of nanotechnology, and are being conservatively invested.
Feynman had unfortunately set the size limits slightly too large to require breakthrough technology.
www.foresight.org /GrandPrize.1.html   (2048 words)

  
 Scientists remember Feynman as new book is published - MIT News Office
Carl Feynman acknowledged that there once was a 1974 Ford van, California license plate "Quantum," covered with the pictograph-like Feynman diagrams for which his father won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
Feynman graduated from MIT in 1939 with a degree in physics and went on to Princeton as a graduate student, where he developed ideas in quantum mechanics using the principle of least action.
Carl Feynman, a software engineer with an undergraduate degree in linguistics and philosophy from MIT and a master's degree in computer science, reinforced the idea that his father was unsure that many wanted to hear his ramblings on subjects other than physics.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1998/feynman-0520.html   (1024 words)

  
 Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Feynman, who died at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center after an eight-year battle with abdominal cancer, was a popular and energetic lecturer who, despite his illness, continued to teach at the California Institute of Technology until two weeks ago.
Feynman, who called his Nobel Prize "a pain in the neck," was "extraordinarily honest with himself and everyone else," and added that "he didn't like ceremony or pomposity.
Feynman caused consternation in his years with the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb, by figuring out in his spare time how to pick the locks on filing cabinets that contained classified information.
www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1988/1988t.html   (607 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)

  
 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.
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 The New York Review of Books: Wise Man
When Feynman came onto the scene in the middle of the century, the foundations were firm and the universe was wide open for foxes to explore.
Feynman was determined to investigate the facts of the case wherever they might lead, and Rogers was determined to keep him on a tight leash in case he might discover something that would be politically embarrassing.
Feynman always said, whenever the opportunity arose, that the "space-time approach" that led him to his new way of doing particle physics was directly borrowed from a paper of Dirac's.
www.nybooks.com /articles/18350   (3867 words)

  
 Carl Feynman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carl Feynman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Carl Feynman is the son of (United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)) Richard Feynman.
He has consulted on various computer ventures including supercomputer manufacturer (additional info and facts about Thinking Machines) Thinking Machines.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carl_feynman.htm   (51 words)

  
 Apostolic Succession
Drexler has insisted that the core of Feynman’s vision was the large-scale precision manipulation and combination of atoms and molecules (now called molecular manufacturing), and he adamantly suggests that he himself continues the rightful essence of that vision.
Feynman’s paper is absent in the references in the U.S. patents for the STM and the AFM.
Last year in “Nanotechnology: From Feynman to Funding,” Drexler presented his views as the legitimate continuation of Feynman’s, arguing that Feynman’s bold vision instigated nanotechnology, and that the heart of that vision was atom-by-atom control of nanomachines to build things.
pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVIII1_2/apostolic.html   (4638 words)

  
 Feynman Grand Prize Page 2
Feynman also served as a leading member of the Rogers Commission, which investigated the cause of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger accident.
Those who knew Dr. Feynman remember him as an extraordinarily brilliant theoretical physicist, a passionate and inspiring teacher, a witty and lucid public speaker, a lover of practical jokes, a devoted family man, and a strong advocate for honesty in science and public policy.
Feynman spoke at Caltech in 1959 on the topic, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." In that talk, he pointed toward the feasibility of molecular nanotechnology.
www.islandone.org /Foresight/GrandPrize.2.html   (1759 words)

  
 Feynman Videos
There was a problem mentioned on the NOVA program about Feynman which is why spaghetti breaks into three pieces when you snap it.
Feynman and a friend of his were not able to come up with a good answer despite several hours and a lot of broken spaghetti.
Well I began thinking about it and I have no real idea what the answer is either, but I have noticed that if I bend it slowly then it breaks in two *unequal* pieces instead of three.
heelspurs.com /feynman.html   (990 words)

  
 CM Article in DesignIssues
Danny Hillis, but also Brewster Kahle and Carl Feynman, with whom I shared an office, were all filled with a passionate and infectious enthusiasm for the machine.
Hawthorne and Bruce were themselves convinced from the beginning that the cube-of-cubes was the right shape for the machine: the large cube built up out of 8 smaller cubes, which I had developed as a visual symbol of the CM-2 for internal use at Thinking Machines.
Carl Feynman had described a fantasy of the CM-2 as a vast cloud of lights that flickered as they sent their electronic messages back and forth, like the firing of neurons in a brain.
mission.base.com /tamiko/theory/cm_txts/di-ch4.html   (732 words)

  
 2002 Holiday Letter
Otherwise, Carl was with me every step of the way, setting up our cappuccino machine to scent the bookstore with the ambience of Italy and warm up the crowd for an hour-long reading from Artful Italy, with many side notes, which Carl heard again and again and again.
Carl traveled on to visit his old student, Tyler Drake, at Caltech, and have him give the campus tour, including of the room lionized by the magician of 20th century physicists, Richard Feynman.
Carl and I also watched the World Cup this year and the Brazilians are still chimeras with Patton-like brains and eagle hearts and gazelle legs.
www.sover.net /~cbrandon/cbrandon/2002.html   (1528 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Feynman's difficult proof, presented in an introductory lecture to Caltech undergraduates, never made it into the classic multivolume Feynman Lectures on Physics, published between 1963 and...
It is amazing how Feynman, starting on the lines of Newton, and then not being able to follow Newton's reasoning, devised a different but elegant proof of the law of ellipses.
Feynman's Lost Lecture details how to use geometric proofs to find answers to problems such as the speed of a planet when in motion around the sun and how to prove geometrically that an object is an ellipse.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393039188   (1504 words)

  
 Guestbook
Feynman is that we have a legacy and record of his passion.
Feynman never exhibited such sheep-like loyalty to anything - not even to science, because of course, science is always subject to modification and clarification, and at its best, is independent of political manipulation.
Feynman makes me smile and laugh and he'll be surely one of those memories you cherish all your life.
www.fotuva.org /online/guestbook.htm   (8343 words)

  
 Learn more about Carl Feynman in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Learn more about Carl Feynman in the online encyclopedia.
Carl Feynman is the son of Richard Feynman.
He has consulted on various computer ventures including supercomputer manufacturer Thinking Machines.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ca/carl_feynman.html   (119 words)

  
 BOOK REVIEW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The original Feynman papers, which I studied as a graduate student, are actually much clearer, and Mehra's book might have improved if he had omitted his rewrite of the technical material and simply appended the original papers.
Feynman's other major contribution to physics, the V-A weak interaction described in Chapter 21 (joint work with Murray Gell-Mann), is cheapened a little by Mehra's insistence on giving prior credit to Marshak and Sudershan (cf.
The same colleague also said, "Feynman never wore a jacket and tie." I guess that depends on one's definition of "never" since there is are several pictures of Feynman in jacket and tie in the book--on the front cover, for example, as well as in the photograph collection between pages 320 and 321.
www.pzweifel.com /music/feynman.htm   (2092 words)

  
 Feynman - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
Feynman, one of the most creative theoretical...During the data-gathering interval, Feynmans investigations led him to confer with...
Feynman states, "There is no authority who decides...lose some of their authority."23 What Feynman expresses here is the inherent danger...
The Feynman diagram, proposed by him in 1949, shows the track of a...provides a clear means of describing particle interactions.
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 Feynman's Lost Lecture by David L. Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0393319954
Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist--one of the century's greatest physicists.
David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Arou...
www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0393319954.html   (722 words)

  
 BW Online | June 18, 2004 | Richard Feynman: The Comic Physicist
A forerunner of celebrity physicists like Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, Feynman's escapades masked an intense clarity of thinking, and he possessed the intellectual heft to close the circle on one of the great unsolved questions in modern physics.
Feynman was born in Far Rockaway, in New York City's borough of Queens, on May 11, 1918.
Feynman's solution presaged his emergence as a physicist of the people.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/jun2004/nf20040618_2356_db078.htm   (992 words)

  
 :: gia's blog ::: 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carl Sagan has got to be one of the most wonderfully brilliant human beings to ever walk the Earth.
The reason I think Carl Sagan beats them all hands down is because he never denied the spiritual side of life.
Carl Sagan was a person, happy to be alive until the day he died.
giagia.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_giagia_archive.html   (8754 words)

  
 Debate on nanotechnology: Letters to Scientific American
Critical of the article is a slightly edited version of the letter below from Carl Feynman, a letter from Edward M. Reifman stating his comment to Mr.
Feynman Grand Prize, and have agreed to naming the prize in his memory.
Stix was unable to understand or even report on the technological issues raised at the conference, and had to spend most of his article in irrelevancies and personal attacks.
www.foresight.org /SciAmDebate/SciAmLetters.html   (3692 words)

  
 Richard P. Feynman - Biography
Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City on the 11th May 1918.
Professor Feynman is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the National Academy of Science; in 1965 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, London (Great Britain).
Richard Feynman is married to Gweneth Howarth, they have a son, Carl Richard (born 22nd April 1961), and a daughter Michelle Catherine (born 13th August 1968).
nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html   (246 words)

  
 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
The 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology was awarded to Nadrian C.
A prize in the amount of $10,000 will be awarded to the researcher whose recent work has most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology.
Richard P. Feynman who, in 1959, gave a visionary talk at Caltech in which he said "The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developed---a development which I think cannot be avoided."
www.zyvex.com /nanotech/feynmanPrize.html   (451 words)

  
 Feynman's letters now available in new book - Nanodot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Just received a review copy of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, edited by his daughter Michelle, sister of Foresight member Carl Feynman.
It includes letters about the two miniaturization prizes that Feynman offered personally, and quite a few new photos.
I had the privilege of attending a couple of his informal tutorials for Caltech students -- he made the most challenging physics seem so understandable.
nanodot.org /article.pl?sid=05/04/12/2336226   (134 words)

  
 Carl Feynman Books, Book Price Comparison at 75 Bookstores.
Carl Feynman Books, Book Price Comparison at 75 Bookstores.
by Carl Feynman Judith R. Goodstein Richard Phillips Feynman
Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and expl...
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 LOGI: Acknowledgements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This paper would not have been written without the support and assistance of a large number of people whose names I unfortunately failed to accumulate in a single location.
At the least I would like to thank Peter Voss, Ben Goertzel, and Carl Feynman for discussing some of the ideas found in this paper.
Any minor blemishes remaining in this document are, of course, my fault.
www.singinst.org /LOGI/acknowledgements.html   (294 words)

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