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	Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
		Richard did a remarkable job of focusing on his "assignment," stopping only occasionally to help wire the computer room, set up the machine shop, shake hands with the investors, install the telephones, and cheerfully remind us of how crazy we all were.
		Feynman's router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in a message address." I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time.
		Feynman was always quick to point out to them that he considered their specific models "kooky," but like the Connection Machine, he considered the subject sufficiently crazy to put some energy into.
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	Richard Feynman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man; /ˈfaɪnmən/ in IPA) was an influential American physicist known for expanding greatly on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, particle theory, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium.
		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.
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	BookRags: Richard Phillips Feynman Biography
		Feynman's primary contribution to physics was in the field of quantum electrodynamics, which is the study of the interactions of electromagnetic radiation with atoms and with fundamental particles, such as electrons.
		Feynman showed that a roton, which is a quantity of rotational motion that can be found in liquid helium, is the quantum mechanical equivalent of a rapidly spinning ring whose diameter is almost equal to the distance between the helium atoms in the liquid.
		Feynman wrote many theoretical physics books which are in use in universities around the country, as well as a series entitled Feynman's Lectures in Physics, which he put together based on several terms of physics lectures he gave at the California Institute of Technology in 1965.
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		Feynman's work on the atomic bomb, though it pained him in a dark way for a few years to follow, brought him closer to great physicists such as the Bohr (both father and son) and Oppenheimer.
		Feynman eventually worked with virtually all the founding fathers of "modern physics." He was to be the promised offspring of the "modern" era to usher in a revolution of fundamental thought in physics.
		Feynman is known for his easy-going style and his emphasis on fundamental concepts that are universal to all fields in physics.
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	Richard Feynman \| Biography \| atomicarchive.com
		Richard P. Feynman was born in Queens, New York, on May 11, 1918, to Jewish (although non-practicing) parents.
		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.
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	Feynman biography
		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.
		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.
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		Richard Feynman: Tutte le informazioni su Richard Feynman su Encyclopedia.it
		Richard Phillips Feynman, (11 maggio 1918 - 15 febbraio 1988), scienziato.
		Possedeva un incredibile talento per la matematica, che lo porto addirittura a inventarsi degli "strumenti matematici" (diagrammi di Feynman e integrali di Feynman), che lo avrebbero aiutato nel campo sul quale si sarebbe poi indirizzato definitivamente: la fisica.
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	Richard Feynman, A Life in Science
		Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was one of the important physicists of the 20th century.
		Feynman, who was probably a realist but not a true Platonist, probably did agree with the Gribbins and with Sandage that the reality is represented in the equations, which are the stuff of things, just as Keane Reeves sees objects consisting of the computer code of The Matrix.
		Feynman knew that the conceptual side of quantum mechanics was a hash, and he frankly called it "incomprehensible"; but his lack of interest in philosophical questions meant that there was literally nothing to be done about this situation, except to see what would come next in the science.
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		Richard Feynman is best known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, which he won a Nobel Prize for in 1965.
		Richard Feynman had a wonderful life from the standpoint that everything in his scientific life worked out well, and he rarely seemed to have any major obstacles in his work.
		Feynman did enjoy what he did and was always ready for a challenge either from a teacher or from a colleague that was stuck.
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		Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 at Far Rockaway, near New York.
		Richard Feynman was able to prove that the explosion was due to the fact that rubber used for packings in shuttle boosters loses its elastical properties at low temperatures.
		Richard Feynman died on February 15, 1988 of cancer.
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	Richard Feynman, A Life in Science
		Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was one of the important physicists of the 20th century.
		Feynman, who was probably a realist but not a true Platonist, probably did agree with the Gribbins and with Sandage that the reality is represented in the equations, which are the stuff of things, just as Keane Reeves sees objects consisting of the computer code of The Matrix.
		Feynman knew that the conceptual side of quantum mechanics was a hash, and he frankly called it "incomprehensible"; but his lack of interest in philosophical questions meant that there was literally nothing to be done about this situation, except to see what would come next in the science.
	friesian.com /feynman.htm (2293 words)

	Luboš Motl's reference frame: Richard Feynman
		Those of us who have read Feynman's books - and not only the subset that prefers Feynman's name as a part of their e-mail address - also know that he was a great teacher, a loving boyfriend, husband, and father, and a very successful writer with an extraordinary sense of humor.
		Feynman has decoded Mayan calendars, Mexican hieroglyphs, and he may be labeled as a social anthropologist focusing on cultures and languages of Japan, Brazil, Las Vegas, and Tuva (thanks to CIP for reminding me).
		Feynman, was normally and legally released before the Velvet revolution in 1989, with all of the comments about Feynman's greatness - despite the fact that it was known that he was a U.S. scientist who did not like socialism and government's control in general.
	motls.blogspot.com /2005/03/richard-feynman.html (11444 words)

	Richard P. Feynman on Physical Units - Numericana
		The Feynman's Lectures on Physics are based on a famous course of undergraduate lectures given at Caltech by Professor Richard Phillips Feynman in the early 1960's.
		Feynman may well be overstating the case, but the opposing understatement is so widespread that we decided to feature this statement as a subtitle for this web page...
		In the spoken lecture, Feynman wrongly used the qualifier "radiant", instead of the term "luminous" which properly qualifies electromagnetic radiation measured with the spectral sensitivity of the human eye under normal "photopic" conditions (when the eye adapts to darkness, it has a different spectral response, which is called "scotopic").
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	Amazon.com: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Vintage): Books: James Gleick (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Physicist Richard Feynman was also an accomplished safecracker, the inventor of QED (quantum electrodynamics), and whatever he turned his hand to, be it bongo drums or painting, the results were invariably immortalized in museums or symphony orchestras.
		Feynman famously dipped an O-Ring into ice water to demonstrate the cause of the Challenger disaster, and estimated the kilotonnage yielded at the Trinity test by observing the displacement of a handful of shredded paper.
		Feynman said in one of his lectures on QED (in my own words) that he did not have a ball and spring model to explain it, but he did have a straight-forward method that predited the right answers.
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	Richard P. Feynman
		I'd like to think of Feynman as someone who was delighted by the universe he lived in and the enigmas it presented to him.
		For, really, Feynman himself isn't the object of our (my) obsession and goal --- he is merely the purest image of the ambitious physicist who has much knowledge and still retains a child-like innocence in his view of the beauty and happiness of living.
		Feynman diagrams describe the interactions between particles predicted by a theory called QED (quantumelectrodynamics).
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	Richard Feynman Quotes - The Quotations Page
		I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
		Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
		There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Richard Feynman
		Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man; in IPA) was one of the most influential American physicists of the 20th century, expanding greatly the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
		Richard Feynman was, in many respects, an eccentric and a free spirit.
		Feynman was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York; his parents were Jewish, although they did not practice Judaism as a religion.
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	Richard Feynman and The Textbook Selection Process (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Feynman was one of the pre-eminent physicists of the twentieth century.
		Feynman said he wasn't quite sure how that would work and declined the offer of an assistant.
		After Feynman repeated himself a second time, a book depository employee piped up and explained that he had elected not to send the book on to the committee members.
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	RICHARD FEYNMAN, lectures books videos compact discs DVDS cassettes
		Michelle Feynman collects her famous father's letters to reveal a warm, honest man with high expectations for himself, his loved ones, and the human race.
		Long before Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize, he was a smart, skinny graduate student at Princeton, writing letters to his mother and relating the mundane details of college life.
		Full of wit and wisdom but their subject matter was wholly unexpected: Feynman spoke not as a physicist but as a concerned fellow citizen, revealing his uncommon insights into the religious, political and social issues of the day.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics: Books: James Gleick (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Always controversial, Feynman was the key physicist from his days as part of the A-bomb-making team at Los Alamos in the early 1940s, until his discovery of the reason for the Challenger space shuttle disaster 40 years later.
		For all of us who have studied theoretical physics, Richard Feynman was a cult figure - the magical scientist who brought a breath of fresh air into physics with his innovative style, and irrepressible personality.
		Feynman may or may not have been a genius (the description is so difficult).
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	The Weirdo Pages: Richard Feynman
		Feynman was a practical joker, a painter, a bongo player, and always a showman.
		While watching "Trinity," the first atomic bomb test, in 1945, Feynman decided no one really knew if the explosion would be bright enough to damage the eye, so he watched it directly through the windshield of his truck.
		A couple weeks after Feynman's death in 1988, his wife received an invitation from the USSR Academy of Sciences to visit Tuva.
	www.crunchygods.com /weirdo/feynman (455 words)

	Friends of Tuva - Richard Feynman
		Feynman's Rainbow is a 2003 release by Leonard Mlodinow.
		Richard Feynman's Challenger Appendix to the findings of the Rogers Commission into the failure of the Challenger space shuttle.
		The Richard Feynman Memorial Bicycling Society is based in England and combines cycling around the Shropshire district with their admiration of Feynman.
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	Richard Feynman
		Gauche,cautious and unintelligible: that sums up most people's image of a physics professor.That's why so many loved Richard Feynman: he was brilliant,outgoing and -staggering,this - successful with women.
		Until the 1980s Feynman's name was familiar only to the scientific cogniscenti as an American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics,the theory of how electrons interact with light.So far,so impenetrable.
		Nanotechnology is one of today's buzz words,and it may be one of tomorrows most crucial technologies.Yet the concept was first put forward nearly forty years ago,by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
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