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1. Jan. 1994 · Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 and grew up in Far Rockaway, New York. At the age of seventeen he entered MIT and in 1939 went to Princeton, then to Los Alamos, where he joined in the effort to build the atomic bomb. Following World War II he joined the physics faculty at Cornell, then went on to Caltech in 1951, where he taught until his death in 1988. He shared the Nobel Prize for ...
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<p>One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon ...
Beginning with a short note home in his first days as a graduate student, and ending with a letter to a stranger seeking his advice decades later, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track covers a dazzling array of topics and themes, scientific developments and personal histories. With missives to and from scientific luminaries, as well as letters to and from fans, family ...
Like. “I am sorry to have to answer your question (as to whether I consider nuclear energy a curse or a salvation of mankind) that I really don’t know. I look to the future neither with hope nor fear but with uncertainty as to what will be.”. ― Richard P. Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of ...
PERFECTLY REASONABLE DEVIATIONS FROM THE BEATEN TRACK: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman, , foreword by Timothy Ferris. . Basic, $26 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-7382-0636-3
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Authors: Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman Summary : One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world.
