Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [271]
98 HE EARNED FIFTEEN DOLLARS A WEEK: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 3 March 1940, PERS.
98 THEY LISTENED WITH AWE: Edward Maisel, telephone interview; cf. F-W, 254.
98 AS WHEELER’S TEACHING ASSISTANT: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 11 October 1939; Feynman notes on nuclear physics, H. H. Barschall papers, AIP.
99 IN CHOOSING A THEME: Schweber, forthcoming.
99 IT SEEMS THAT SOME ESSENTIALLY NEW: Dirac 1935, 297; NL, 434.
99 WILHELM RÖNTGEN, THE DISCOVERER OF X RAYS: Dresden 1987, 11.
100 EVEN NOW FEYNMAN DID NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND: F-W, 230.
100 HE PROPOSED—TO HIMSELF: NL, 434.
100 SHAKE THIS ONE: Ibid.
101 IT IS FELT TO BE MORE ACCEPTABLE: Bridgman 1952, 14–15.
102 THE TENSION IN THE MEMBRANE: Weinberg 1977a, 19.
102 WHEELER, TOO, HAD REASONS: Wheeler, interview.
102 HE ENJOYED TRYING TO GUESS: SYJ, 69–71.
103 ALTHOUGH HE TEASED THEM: F-L, for SYJ, 71.
104 “FLEXAGONS” LAUNCHED GARDNER’S CAREER: Gardner 1989; Albers and Alex-anderson 1985.
104 SIRS: I WAS QUITE TAKEN: Quoted in Gardner 1989, 13–14.
104 FEYNMAN SPENT SLOW AFTERNOONS: SYJ, 77.
105 DON’T BOTHER ME: F-L; WDY, 56.
105 HUMAN SPERMATOZOA: Maisel, interview.
105 THEY DECIDED THAT THEIR BRAINS: WDY, 55–57.
105 WE WERE INTERESTED AND HAPPY: John Tukey, interview, Princeton, N.J.
105 HE READ SOME POEMS ALOUD: Maisel interview.
105 RHYTHM IS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL TRANSLATORS: “Some Notes on My Own Poetry,” in Sitwell 1987, 131.
105 WHILE A UNIVERSE GROWS IN MY HEAD: “Tattered Serenade,” in Sitwell 1943, 19.
106 IT’S CLEAR TO EVERYBODY AT FIRST SIGHT: F-L.
106 WHEELER WAS ASKED FOR HIS OWN VERDICT: SYJ, 51; Wheeler 1989, 2–3.
106 THE PALMER PHYSICAL LABORATORY: Princeton University Catalogue: General Issue, 1941–42. PUL.
107 PRINCETON’S GAVE FEYNMAN A SHOCK: SYJ, 49–50.
107 THE HEAD OF THE CYCLOTRON BANISHED FEYNMAN: Wheeler 1989, 3.
107 IT DOES NOT TURN AT ALL: A sound explanation—with a description of a safer experiment than Feynman’s—is in Mach 1960, 388–90. But physicists have never stopped arguing for either of the other answers, and there is an ongoing literature.
109 THERE IS NO SIGNBOARD: Eddington 1940, 68.
109 UNFORTUNATELY HE HAD MEANWHILE LEARNED: F-W, 233; NL, 435.
110 A BROADCASTING ANTENNA, RADIATING ENERGY: Cf. Feynman’s later discussion of radiation resistance, Lectures, I-32–1.
110 HE ASKED WHEELER: F-W, 233–34; NL, 436.
111 TIME DELAY HAD NOT BEEN A FEATURE: Wheeler and Feynman 1949, 426.
111 THE WAVES WERE NOW RETARDED: Lectures, I-28–2.
111 VIEWED IN CLOSE-UP: Morris 1984, 137.
112 SHAKE A CHARGE HERE: F-W, 237.
112 OH, WHADDYAMEAN, HOW COULD THAT BE?: Feynman 1965b.
112 THE WORK REQUIRED INTENSE CALCULATION: He wrote his parents in November: “… last week things were going fast & neat as all heck, but now I’m hitting some mathematical difficulties which I will either surmount, walk around, or go a different way—all of which consumes all my time—but I like to do very much & and am very happy indeed. I have never thought so much so steadily about one problem … I’m just beginning to see how far it is to the end & how we might get there (altho aforementioned mathematical difficulties loom ahead)— SOME FUN!” Feynman to Lucille Feynman, November 1940, PERS.
112 FOR THOSE WHO WERE SQUEAMISH: Feynman 1941a, fig. 3 caption.
112 THEN THE EFFECT OF THE SOURCE: Feynman 1948b, 941.
113 HE DESCRIBED IT TO HIS GRADUATE STUDENT FRIENDS: F-W, 237–38.
113 FOR EXAMPLE, COULD ONE DESIGN A MECHANISM: Wheeler and Feynman 1949, 426–27; Hesse 1961, 279.
113 AS LONG AS THE THEORY RELIED ON PROBABILITIES: Feynman 1941a, 20.
113 HE CONTINUED TO CHERISH A NOTION: Wheeler, oral-history interview, 17 November 1985, 12, AIP.
113 EARLY IN 1941 HE TOLD FEYNMAN: Cf. Recommendation of Richard Phillips Feynman for Appointment as Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow for 1941–1942, PUL.
113 AS THE DAY APPROACHED: F-W, 242–44; SYJ, 64–66.
115 PAULI DID OBJECT: Wheeler 1989, 26. Much later Feynman said of Pauli’s objection: “It’s too bad that I cannot remember what, because the theory is not right and the gentleman may well have hit