Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [267]
40 FOR THE OCCASION: Joan Feynman-Weiner, 28–29.
40 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: F-W, 78.
41 NEW YORK IN 1982: Chase 1932, 13.
41 ELECTRICITY POWERED THE HUMAN BRAIN: William A. Laurence, “Brain Phone Lines Counted as 1 Plus 15 Million Zeroes,” New York Times, 25 June 1933.
41 IN AN OPENING-DAY STUNT: Dedmon 1953, 334.
41 HERE ARE CATHERED THE EVIDENCES: “Chicago Fair Opened by Farley; Rays of Arcturus Start Lights,” New York Times, 28 May 1933.
41 A 151 -WORD WALL MOTTO: “Science in 151 Words,” New York Times, 4 June 1933.
42 EINSTEIN’S SUPPOSED CLAIM: Cf. Kevles 1987, 175, and Pais 1982, 309. Einstein seems not to have disavowed the remark when given the chance.
42 LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS: New York Times, 9 November 1919, quoted in Pais 1982, 309.
42 A SERIES OF EDITORIALS: Pais 1982, 309.
42 MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED BOOKS: Clark 1971, 247.
42 TRANSMITTED BY UNDERWATER CABLE: Kevles 1987, 175.
42 WE HAVE EINSTEIN’S SPACE: Quoted in Clark 1971, 242.
44 THERE ARE NO PHYSICISTS IN AMERICA: Raymond T. Birge to John van Vleck, 10 March 1927, quoted in Schweber 1986ft, 55–56.
45 I BELIEVE THAT MINNEAPOLIS: Quoted in Kevles 1987, 168.
45 ON THE BEACH SOME DAYS: Lewine, interview; Joan Feynman, interview; Joan Feynman-Weiner.
45 SHORTLY HE FOUND HIMSELF LYING: F-W, 117.
45 ONE HORRIBLY RUDE BOY: Ibid., 118
46 ALL LEFT HIM FEELING INEPT: WDY, 20–23.
46 WITH THE COMING OF THE DEPRESSION: Joan Feynman-Weiner.
46 TO THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: Ibid., 31—32.
46 THE RADIO HAD PENETRATED: “Modernistic Radios,” New York Times, 4 June 1933.
46 HE REWIRED A PLUG: F-W, 105–7.
46 HE FIXES RADIOS BY THINKING!: SYJ, 3.
47 WHAT ARE YOU DOING?: F-W, 107–8; SYJ, 7–8.
47 MERELY TO FIND A MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK: Feynman 1965d, 10.
47 IF A BOY NAMED MORRIE JACOBS: Feynman to Morris Jacobs, 27 January 1987, CIT.
47 HE RECOGNIZED THE PLEASURE: Feynman 1965d, 11.
48 SCHWINGER KNEW HOW TO FIND BOOKS: Schweber, forthcoming. 48 THE PHYSICAL REVIEW: Kevles 1987, 218.
48 THAT YEAR HE CAREFULLY TYPED OUT: Julian Schwinger, interview, Bel Air, Calif.; Schwinger 1934. He later said (1983), he had been “parrot[ing] the wisdom of my elders, to be later rejected.”
49 THEY AMAZED A DINNER PARTY: Marvin Goldberger, interview, Pasadena. 49 HE LONG RESENTED THE LOSS: F-W, 113; WDY, 33.
MIT
Among Feynman’s fellow students and fraternity brothers, T. A. Welton, Conyers Herring, John L. Joseph, Monarch L. Cutler, Leonard Mautner, Maurice A. Meyer, and Daniel Robbins contributed the most revealing interviews. Welton has set down his recollections of Feynman in a manuscript titled “Memories” (CIT), and the American Institute of Physics has the notebook in which he and Feynman developed their view of quantum mechanics. Feynman’s MIT transcript and some other academic records were preserved in his personal papers. The archives of MIT provided some correspondence and yearbooks. Joan Feynman made available her brother’s letters to her and her parents. Other important sources include: on physics at MIT, the memoirs of John C. Slater (1975) and Philip Morse (1977), and Schweber’s profile of Slater (1989); on the early development of American quantum physics, Kevles 1987, Schweber, forthcoming, and Sopka 1980; on the principle of least action. Lectures II-19, Park 1988, Gregory 1988, and QED; on anti-Semitism in science, Silberman 1985, Steinberg 1971, Lipset and Ladd 1971; Dobkowski 1979, and the remarkable correspondence between Feynman’s MIT professors and Harry D. Smyth (MIT and a confidential file at PUL).
52 IN THAT CASE YOU ARE COMPLETELY LOST: Heisenberg 1971, 15–16.
52 THE AMERICAN MIND: Menge 1932, 11.
53 FEYNMAN CHANCED: F-W, 131.
53 BUT THE DEPRESSION HAD FORCED: Kevles 1987, 250–51.
53 NIGHTMARE: Ibid.
53 FEEL THE CRAVING: Menge 1932, 10.
53 DESPITE ANTI-SEMITIC MISGIVINGS: Rabi,