Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [270]
85 WE KNOW PERFECTLY WELL: Quoted in Silberman 1985, 90.
85 THEY TOOK OBVIOUS PRIDE: Francis Russell, “The Coming of the Jews,” quoted in Steinberg 1971, 71.
85 BECAUSE, BROTHER, HE IS BURNING: Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Co Home Again (New York: Dell, 1960), 462. Quoted in Kevles 1987, 279.
85 IT WAS ALSO UNDERSTOOD: Sopka 1980, 4:105.
85 NEW YORK JEWS FLOCKED OUT HERE: Davis 1968, 83.
85 A FRUSTRATED OPPENHEIMER: J. R. Oppenheimer to Raymond T. Birge, 4 November 1943, 26 May 1944, and 5 October 1944, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 268, 275, and 284.
85 IF FEYNMAN EVER SUSPECTED: Silberman 1985, 91–92; F-W, 198.
86 HALF A LINE: F-W, 182.
87 INSTEAD OF SPINNINC: Ibid., 180.
87 A SCIENCE OF MATERIALS: C. Smith 1981, 121–22.
87 MATTER IS A HOLOGRAPH OF ITSELF: Ibid., 122
88 AS FEYNMAN CONCEIVED THE STRUCTURE: Feynman 1939a and b.
90 IT IS TO BE EMPHASIZED: Feynman 1939a, 3; Conyers Herring, telephone interview.
90 HE COMPLAINED THAT FEYNMAN WROTE: Robbins interview.
90 SO HE WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR: F-W, 186. Slater, in his textbooks, preferred “Feynman’s theorem” as late as 1963, though he had found that a German, H. Hellmann, had made the same discovery two years earlier. Slater 1963, 12–13; H. Hellmann, Einführung in die Quantenchemie (Leipzig: Deuticke, 1937).
91 THAT’S ALL I REMEMBER OF IT: F-W, 196.
91 IT SEEMED TO SOME THAT SLATER: Silvan S. Schweber, interview, Cambridge, Mass.
91 MY SON RICHARD IS FINISHING: Morse 1977, 125–26.
91 MORSE TRIED NOT TO LAUGH: Ibid. Although Morse did not say so, part of Melville’s concern was whether anti-Semitism would block a career in physics; he expressed this in a similar conversation with John Wheeler a few years later (Wheeler 1989).
PRINCETON
Wheeler and many of his later students gave me some understanding of the relationship between Wheeler and Feynman. Wheeler 1979a and Klauder 1972 are sources of recollections. Wheeler shared the draft of his talk for a 1989 memorial session (Wheeler 1989). H. H. Barschall, Leonard Eisenbud, Simeon Hutner, Paul Olum, Leo Lavatelli, and Edward Maisel provided recollections of Feynman and the Princeton of the late thirties and early forties. John Tukey and Martin Gardner illuminated the history of Hexagons. Robert R. Wilson discussed the isotron project and Feynman’s initiation into the Manhattan Project, as well as much later history. The declassified documentary record of the isotron project, including a series of technical papers by Feynman, is in the Smyth papers at the American Philosophical Society.
93 A BLACK HOLE HAS NO HAIR: Wheeler and Ruffini 1971.
93 THERE IS NO LAW EXCEPT THE LAW: In Mehra 1973, 242.
93 I ALWAYS KEEP TWO LEGS GOING: John Archibald Wheeler, interview, Princeton, N.J.
93 IN ANY FIELD FIND THE STRANGEST THING: Boslough 1986, 109.
93 INDIVIDUAL EVENTS: Quoted in Dyson 1980, 54. As Dyson says, “It sounds like Beowulf, but it is authentic Wheeler.”
94 SOMEWHERE AMONG THOSE POLITE FAÇADES: In Steuwer 1979, 214–15.
94 WHEN HE WAS A BOY: Bernstein 1985, 29; Wheeler 1979a, 221.
94 SLATER AND COMPTON PREFERRED: Slater 1975, 170–71.
94 WHEELER STILL REMEMBERED: Wheeler 1979a, 224.
94 WHEN WHEELER MET HIS SHIP: Ibid., 272.
95 IT WAS THIS LAST IMAGE: Bohr and Wheeler 1939.
95 THEY SPENT A LATE NIGHT TRYING: Bernstein 1985, 38.
96 WHEELER SAID THAT HE WAS TOO BUSY: H. H. Barschall, telephone interview.
96 YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE GOING TO BE: F-W, 209; Leonard Eisenbud, telephone interview.
96 THE NEXT TIME FEYNMAN SAW BARSCHALL: Barschall, interview.
96 WHEELER’S POINTED DISPLAY: F-W, 194 and 215–16.
97 LAZY AND GOOD-LOOKING: Mizener 1949, 34 and 38.
97 A QUAINT CEREMONIOUS VILLAGE: Einstein to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, 20 November 1933, quoted in Pais 1982, 453. 97 THE OBLIGATORY BLACK GOWNS: SYJ, 49.
97 WHEN THE MATHEMATICIAN CARL LUDWIG SIEGEL RETURNED: Dyson 1988b, 3.
97 SURELY YOU’RE JOKING: F-W, 209; SYJ, 48–49.
97 IT BOTHERED HIM THAT THE RAINCOAT: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 11 October 1939, PERS.
98 HE TRIED SCULLING: Ibid.
98 WHEN HE ENTERTAINED GUESTS: Feynman to Lucille Feynman,