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

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Richard P. Feynman was a world renowned theoretical physicist and a Nobel Prize-winner who played a pivotal role in the foundations of quantum mechanics and nanotechnology.

Overview of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". wwnorton.com. W. W. Norton & Company. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Goldberg, Lesley (September 26, 2012). "William Hurt to Star in Science Channel/BBC Challenger Docu-Drama (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved June 10, 2023. The people of Japan believed they had only one way of moving up: to have their children educated more than they were; that it was very important for them to move out of their peasantry to become educated. So there has been a great energy in the family to encourage the children to do well in school, and to be pushed forward. Because of this tendency to learn things all the time, new ideas from the outside would spread through the educational system very easily. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why Japan has advanced so rapidly." Feynman’s sharp wit and willingness to upstage anyone who ever tried to subdue him was the hallmark of his personality. A large part of the book underscores this virtue of his via a mixed bag of funny and not-so-funny pranks. Feynman, Richard P.; Metropolis, N.; Teller, E. (1947). Equations of State of Elements Based on the Generalized Fermi-Thomas Theory (PDF). Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission. doi: 10.2172/4417654. OSTI 4417654.Koren, Marina (October 24, 2018). "Lawrence Krauss and the Legacy of Harassment in Science: The theoretical physicist isn't the first celebrity scientist to be accused of sexual misconduct, but he is the first to face consequences". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 30, 2021 . Retrieved September 26, 2019. Schwab, Katharine (November 16, 2017). "The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs". Fast Company . Retrieved July 23, 2022.

Feynman, Richard P. (1960). "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". Engineering and Science. 23 (5): 22–36. Other work at Los Alamos included calculating neutron equations for the Los Alamos "Water Boiler", a small nuclear reactor, to measure how close an assembly of fissile material was to criticality. [62]Feynman, Richard P. (1953). "The λ-Transition in Liquid Helium". Physical Review. 90 (6): 1116–1117. Bibcode: 1953PhRv...90.1116F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.90.1116.2. Archived from the original on September 17, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019. Bashe, Charles J.; Johnson, Lyle R.; Palmer, John H.; Pugh, Emerson W. (1986). IBM's Early Computers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT. ISBN 0-262-02225-7. OCLC 12021988.

Brown, Laurie M. and Rigden, John S. (editors) (1993) Most of the Good Stuff: Memories of Richard Feynman Simon & Schuster, New York, ISBN 0-88318-870-8. Commentary by Joan Feynman, John Wheeler, Hans Bethe, Julian Schwinger, Murray Gell-Mann, Daniel Hillis, David Goodstein, Freeman Dyson, and Laurie Brown Feynman, Richard P.; Kleinert, Hagen (1986). "Effective classical partition functions" (PDF). Physical Review A (published December 1986). 34 (6): 5080–5084. Bibcode: 1986PhRvA..34.5080F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.34.5080. PMID 9897894. In 1978, Feynman sought medical treatment for abdominal pains and was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer. Surgeons removed a "very large" tumor that had crushed one kidney and his spleen. Further operations were performed in October 1986 and October 1987. [191] He was again hospitalized at the UCLA Medical Center on February 3, 1988. A ruptured duodenal ulcer caused kidney failure, and he declined to undergo the dialysis that might have prolonged his life for a few months. Feynman's wife Gweneth, sister Joan, and cousin Frances Lewine watched over him during the final days of his life until he died on February 15, 1988. [192] In 1986 doctors discovered another cancer, Waldenström macroglobulinemia. [193] I would highly recommend “ The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” as a much more thought-provoking book. In it, Feynman tells stories and searches for meaning in life and physics and takes the reader along. In Brazil, Feynman was impressed with samba music, and learned to play the frigideira, [120] a metal percussion instrument based on a frying pan. [121] He was an enthusiastic amateur player of bongo and conga drums and often played them in the pit orchestra in musicals. [122] [123] He spent time in Rio with his friend Bohm, but Bohm could not convince Feynman to investigate Bohm's ideas on physics. [124]

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Rieffel, Eleanor G.; Polak, Wolfgang H. (March 4, 2011). Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction. MIT Press. p.44. ISBN 978-0-262-01506-6.

The title of this collection comes from a tale that took place early in Feynman's career where he was invited for an afternoon tea with the dean of his university. The dean's wife i He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Along with his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. Feynman, Richard P (1988b). "An Outsider's Inside View of the Challenger Inquiry" (PDF). Physics Today. 41 (1): 26–37. Bibcode: 1988PhT....41b..26F. doi: 10.1063/1.881143. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2021 . Retrieved April 26, 2021. Gweneth... explained how she thought I would make a unique contribution—in a way that I am modest enough not to describe. Nevertheless, I believed what she said. So I said, 'OK. I'll accept.' Though written in short anecdotes that make it easily readable, I believe this is not Feynman’s best book. It seems Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman only recounts stories while trying to be funny, but never actually making the reader reflect deeply.Feynman, Richard P. (1985). Leighton, Ralph (ed.). Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character. W. W. Norton& Company. ISBN 0-393-01921-7. OCLC 10925248. Milburn, Gerald J. (1998). The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books. ISBN 0-7382-0173-1. Feynman, Richard P. (2000). Laurie M. Brown (ed.). Selected Papers of Richard Feynman: With Commentary. 20th Century Physics. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-4131-5.

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