"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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Feynman, Richard P. (1985b). QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02417-0.

In 1939, Feynman received a bachelor's degree [36] and was named a Putnam Fellow. [37] He attained a perfect score on the graduate school entrance exams to Princeton University in physics—an unprecedented feat—and an outstanding score in mathematics, but did poorly on the history and English portions. The head of the physics department there, Henry D. Smyth, had another concern, writing to Philip M. Morse to ask: "Is Feynman Jewish? We have no definite rule against Jews but have to keep their proportion in our department reasonably small because of the difficulty of placing them." [38] Morse conceded that Feynman was indeed Jewish, but reassured Smyth that Feynman's "physiognomy and manner, however, show no trace of this characteristic". [38] a b c d e O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. (August 2002). "Richard Feynman (1918–1988) – Biography – MacTutor History of Mathematics". University of St. Andrews . Retrieved June 10, 2023. After the war, Feynman takes a job as a professor at Cornell. He works and teaches there for several years before moving to CalTech. He decides CalTech is everything he ever wanted in a workplace and settles down there permanently. He establishes a reputation as a brilliant and accomplished physicist, and achieves worldwide recognition—including a Nobel prize in 1965. (However, the book tells us very little about the actual physics he does in his career). The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Complete Audio Collection, selections from which were also released as Six Easy Pieces and Six Not So Easy Pieces Oral history interview transcript with Richard Feynman on 28 June 1966, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session IV

Galison, Peter (1998). "Feynman's War: Modelling Weapons, Modelling Nature". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 29 (3): 391–434. Bibcode: 1998SHPMP..29..391G. doi: 10.1016/S1355-2198(98)00013-6. Hoddeson, Lillian; Henriksen, Paul W.; Meade, Roger A.; Westfall, Catherine L. (1993). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44132-3. OCLC 26764320. Feynman, Richard P. "Appendix F – Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle". Kennedy Space Center. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019 . Retrieved September 11, 2017. Feynman, Richard (1997). Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-393-31604-9.

Feynman had studied the ideas of John von Neumann while researching quantum field theory. His most famous lecture on the subject was delivered in 1959 at the California Institute of Technology, published under the title There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom a year later. In this lecture he theorized on future opportunities for designing miniaturized machines, which could build smaller reproductions of themselves. This lecture is frequently cited in technical literature on microtechnology, and nanotechnology. [156] Pedagogy [ edit ] Feynman during a lecture Physics Today, American Institute of Physics magazine, February 1989 Issue. (Vol. 42, No. 2.) Special Feynman memorial issue containing non-technical articles on Feynman's life and work in physics. Martin Ebers; Susana Navas, eds. (2020). Algorithms and Law. Cambridge University Press. pp.5–6. ISBN 9781108424820. Richard Phillips Feynman ( / ˈ f aɪ n m ə n/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. With Murray Gell-Mann, Feynman developed a model of weak decay, which showed that the current coupling in the process is a combination of vector and axial currents (an example of weak decay is the decay of a neutron into an electron, a proton, and an antineutrino). Although E. C. George Sudarshan and Robert Marshak developed the theory nearly simultaneously, Feynman's collaboration with Gell-Mann was seen as seminal because the weak interaction was neatly described by the vector and axial currents. It thus combined the 1933 beta decay theory of Enrico Fermi with an explanation of parity violation. [141]The other was his senior thesis, on "Forces in Molecules", [34] based on a topic assigned by John C. Slater, who was sufficiently impressed by the paper to have it published. Its main result is known as the Hellmann–Feynman theorem. [35] Milburn, Gerald J. (1998). The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books. ISBN 0-7382-0173-1.