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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He is also known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of the physics…
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“studying habits and the Portuguese language textbooks were so devoid of any context or applications for their information that, in Feynman”
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote an article describing Feynman's talents as a teacher ("The Best Teacher I Never Had"), which inspired Gates to create Project Tuva to place the videos of Feynman's Messenger Lectures
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Oscar Isaac performed a public reading of Feynman's 1946 love letter to the late Arline
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Gates made a video in response to Caltech's request for thoughts on Feynman for the 50th anniversary of Feynman's 1965 Nobel Prize, on why he thought Feynman was special
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Feynman's role on the Rogers Commission was dramatized by the BBC in The Challenger (US title: The Challenger Disaster), with William Hurt playing Feynman
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Video game designer Seamus Blackley, a father of the Xbox, bought the van
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Feynman was the subject of a biographical graphic novel entitled simply Feynman, written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Myrick
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“Es ist wichtig, einzusehen, dass wir in der heutigen Physik nicht wissen, was Energie ist. Wir haben kein Bild davon, dass Energie in kleinen Klumpen definierter Größe vorkommt." - Vorlesungen über Physik, Band I, Kap. 4.1 (Übersetzung: Heinz Köhler), Seite 46, Oldenbourg München Wien, 5. Aufl. 2007 Google Books”
The United States Postal Service issued the "American Scientists" commemorative set of four 37-cent stamps in several configurations
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With Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics by Michael Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton (Robert Leighton's son), with support from Kip Thorne and other physicists
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“(Original engl.: "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring." - Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. Basic Books, New York 2005, S. 373. books.google.de)”
“Jede Generation von Physikern hat ihre Leitfiguren. In den Jahrzehnten vor der String-Theorie waren es Gell-Mann und Feynman. In den letzten Jahrzehnten war es Edward Witten." - Leonard Mlodinow: "Das Fenster zum Universum. Eine kleine Geschichte der Geometrie". Übersetzer: Carl Freytag. Campus Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-593-36931-1, Seite 265.”
And was later presented at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway, with both productions starring Alda as Richard Feynman
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“Ein Philosoph hat einmal behaupet: 'Naturwissenschaft setzt notwendig voraus, dass gleiche Umstände immer auch gleiche Auswirkungen haben.' Nun, dem ist nicht so." - Zitiert in Tony Hey und Patrick Walters: Das Quantenuniversum, Spektrum, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-8274-0315-4 Kapitel 2 "Heisenberg und die quantenmechanische Unbestimmtheit" "Seite 33.”
Died 1988-02-15.
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“Uprzedzenia sprawiają, że trudniej jest coś udowodnić, ale jeśli to coś istnieje, może mimo wszystko liczyć na odkrycie.”
“El principio básico es que no debes engañarte a ti mismo, porque tú eres la persona más fácil de engañar.”
“We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!”
“PrinciplesYou can't say A is made of Bor vice versa.All mass is interaction.”
“Przecież myślenie to tak, jakby się mówiło do siebie, w środku.”
“Zostaw to biedne dziecko w spokoju. Jak chce położyć niebieski, to pozwól mu położyć niebieski.Ale ojciec odparł:– Nie. Chcę mu pokazać, jakie z nich można ułożyć wzory i jakie są interesujące. To taki podstawowy kurs matematyki.Jak widać, ojciec bardzo wcześnie zaczął opowiadać mi o świecie i o tym, jaki jest ciekawy.”
“Jeśli coś jest rzeczywiście prawdą, powtarzanie obserwacji i poprawianie ich efektywności zwiększa wyrazistość wyników, a nie zmniejsza ją.”
“I wanted most to give you some appreciation of the wonderful world and the physicist’s way of looking at it, which, I believe, is a major part of the true culture of modern times. (ang.)”
“Poeta powiedział: „Cały Wszechświat mieści się w szklance wina”. Prawdopodobnie nie dowiemy się nigdy, co dokładnie miał na myśli, ponieważ poeci nie po to piszą, by ich rozumiano.”
“Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!”
“Uważam, że problem nie polega na wyborze pomiędzy socjalizmem i kapitalizmem, ale raczej pomiędzy tłumieniem idei i wolnością idei.”
“Zadufani durnie doprowadzają mnie do szału, do zwykłych durni nic nie mam.”
“Zjawisko, które rozważamy, musi wykazywać pewną trwałość lub stałość. Znaczy to, że jeśli zjawisko jest trudne do zbadania, to obserwowane w różnych sytuacjach powinno wykazywać w mniejszym lub większym stopniu takie same cechy.”
“Mir würde es gar nicht gefallen, zweimal zu sterben. Es ist so langweilig.", Letzte Worte, 15. Februar 1988 - zu seiner Ehefrau, seiner Schwester und seiner Cousine, als er kurz aus einem durch Nierenversagen verursachten Koma erwachte”
“Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.”
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
“I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.”
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”
Doctors discovered another cancer, Waldenström macroglobulinemia
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“Richard Feynman's Computer Heuristics Lecture”
“The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
Won National Medal of Science (1979).
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“The Smartest Man in the World”
“Photons: Corpuscles of Light”
Feynman sought medical treatment for abdominal pains and was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer
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Adding that La Belle had been paid less than male colleagues
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Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a sixth quark, which was discovered in the decade after his death
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Feynman supported his English literature colleague Jenijoy La Belle, who had been hired as Caltech's first female professor in 1969, and filed suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after she was refused t
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In Long Beach, California, Feynman bought a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan with a bronze-khaki exterior and yellow-green interior, with custom Feynman diagram exterior murals
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Feynman delivered the Caltech commencement address on the topic of cargo cult science, which has the semblance of science, but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scient
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Won Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1973).
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Won Oersted Medal (1972).
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“address "What is Science?", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966), published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320”
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1965).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965).
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“statement (c. 1965), quoted in "An irreverent best-seller by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gives nerds a good name", People Magazine (22 July 1985)”
“New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics", Engineering and Science volume 28, number 6 (March 1965) p. 9-15 at p. 14”
“US-amerikanischer Physiker, Nobelpreis für Physik 1965”
“The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)”
Received the Oersted Medal in 1972, and the National Medal of Science in 1979
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“(Original engl.: "A philosopher once said: 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not." - The Character of Physical Law. A series of lectures recorded by the BBC at Cornell University. BBC 1965. Neuauflage Modern Library 1994)”
In which he explains basic topics in physics; they were also adapted into the book The Character of Physical Law
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Served on the California State Curriculum Commission, which was responsible for approving textbooks to be used by schools in California
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Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1962).
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“On the Philosophical Problems in Quantizing Macroscopic Objects"(ca. 1962-1963) as quoted by Morinigo, Wagner, & Hatfield, Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (2002)”
And adopted a daughter, Michelle, in 1968
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At the California Institute of Technology, published under the title "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" a year later
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“There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom”
“statement (1959), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 372”
“remarks (2 May 1956) at a Caltech YMCA lunch forum”
Awarded Albert Einstein Award (1954).
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When Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) notified him that he had won the Albert Einstein Award, which was worth $15,000 and came with a gold medal
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And immigrated to Brazil in October 1951
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“letter to Robert Bacher (6 April 1950), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 278”
And "An Operator Calculus Having Applications in Quantum Electrodynamics" in 1951, he developed the mathematical basis of his ideas, derived familiar formulae and advanced new ones
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And the FBI questioned Bethe about Feynman's loyalty
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Which added new rules to Feynman's that told how to implement renormalization
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“s cold winter weather and that he felt he lived in the shadow of Hans Bethe while at Cornell. Brazil (1949–1952) Feynman spent several weeks in Rio de Janeiro in July 1949. That year, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, generating concerns about espionage. Fuchs was arrested as a Soviet spy in 1950 and the FBI questioned Bethe about Feynman”
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“Reflecting on the failure of his presentation at the "Pocono Conference" of 30 March - 1 April 1948.”
Wrote a letter to Arline, expressing his deep love and heartbreak
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And Feynman suffered from depression
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Received a letter from Dean Mark Ingraham of the College of Letters and Science requesting his return to the university to teach in the coming academic year
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This was endorsed by Robert Bacher, also from Cornell, and one of the most senior scientists at Los Alamos
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Took the ferry to Staten Island, where they were married in the city office
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Studied at Princeton University, doctorate (1939–1942).
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With World War II occurring in Europe but the United States not yet at war, Feynman spent the summer working on ballistics problems at the Frankford Arsenal in Pennsylvania
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Awarded Putnam Fellow (1939).
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bachelor's degree (1935–1939).
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Feynman received a bachelor's degree and was named a Putnam Fellow
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Studied at Far Rockaway High School (1931–1935).
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Born 1918-05-11.
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In Queens, New York City, to Lucille (née Phillips), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman, a sales manager for uniforms
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“Эта цитата восходит к утверждению французского математика Жергонна (1771-1859): Нельзя хвастаться тем, что ты сказал последнее слово в какой-либо теории, если не можешь объяснить ее несколькими словами первому встречному на улице. "On ne peut se flatter d’avoir le dernier mot d’une théorie, tant qu’on ne peut pas l’expliquer en peu de paroles à un passant dans la rue.”
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