Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [273]
128 THE NEXT DAY JEHLE AND FEYNMAN: NL, 443.
129 YOU AMERICANS!: F-W, 272; Schweber 1986a.
130 HERE IS A GREAT MAN: Robert R. Wilson, interview, Ithaca, N.Y.
130 NOTEBOOK OF THINGS: Feynman 1940; F-W, 287–88.
130 FEYNMAN WAS ASKED WHICH COLOR: F-W, 289–90.
130 FEYNMAN HAD BEEN FRUSTRATED: Ibid., 220–21.
131 AS I’M TALKING: WDY, 59.
132 IN FEYNMAN’S MIND A SEQUENCE: F-W, 273–74.
133 ALEXANDER FLEMING HAD NOTICED: Macfarlane 1984; Root-Bernstein 1989, 166–68.
134THAT PATHOLOGICALLY LUXURIANT MORBID GROWTH: Mann 1927, 286–87.
134 FEYNMAN WAS BACK IN THE LIBRARY: The account of Feynman’s relationship with Arline Greenbaum is based in part on two versions by Feynman: in F-W, 304; and in WDY, 35. Though more than twenty years apart, these are not independent versions; their wording is so consistent that Feynman must have reviewed his copy of the AIP interview before tape-recording the version that was then published, with further editing, in Feynman 1988.
135 GOODBYE LOVE LETTER: WDY, 38.
135 WHEN SHE CONFRONTED RICHARD: Cf. Arline Greenbaum to Feynman, 3 June 1941, PERS.
135 HE WAS SUPPORTING HIMSELF: Fellowship records, PUL.
135 WHEN HE TOLD A UNIVERSITY DEAN: F-W, 309.
136 A PHYSICISTS’ WAR: Kevles 1987.
136 A NUMBER IN THE AIR: Wilson, interview.
136 THE HUNGARIAN CONSPIRACY: Rhodes 1987, 308.
136 I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT: Ibid., 305.
136 WILSON AND SEVERAL OTHER PHYSICISTS: Wilson, interview.
137 THE BRITISH HAD INVENTED: Rigden 1987, 130.
137 IT’S SIMPLE—IT’S JUST A KIND OF WHISTLE: Edward U. Condon, quoted in Kevles 1987, 304.
137 OFFERED TO JOIN THE SIGNAL CORPS: Feynman 1981.
137 FROM THEIR WINDOWS THE BELL RESEARCHERS: SYJ, 83–84.
137 IT WAS A CHANCE TO SERVE: F-W, 294.
138 ONE-FOURTH OF THE NATION’S SEVEN-THOUSAND-ODD PHYSICISTS: Kevles 1987, 320. He estimates that the number included “three quarters of [the physics profession’s] eminent leadership.”
138 THE FIELD OF MECHANISMS, DEVICES: Compton, “Scientists Face the World of 1942,” quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
138 A PRIMITIVE SORT OF ANALOG COMPUTER: F-W, 294–95; SYJ, 85–87.
138 FEYNMAN FOUND HIMSELF DRAWN: Mitchell Feigenbaum, interview, New York.
139 HE CONSIDERED THE CASE OF TWO PARTICLES: Feynman 1941b.
139 THIS PREOCCUPATION WITH: Ibid.
139 THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY: Wilson, interview.
139 AN EXPATRIATE GERMAN CHEMIST: Peierls 1985, 169.
140 ONE MORNING HE HAD GONE INTO HIS KITCHEN: Rhodes 1987, 340.
140 STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO CHOOSE: Lavatelli, interview.
140 IF THERE WAS ANY BALONEY: Wilson, interview.
140 TO HIS DISMAY: Ibid.; F-W, 297.
140 SLIGHTLY DISILLUSIONED WITH WAR WORK: “I guess my patriotism had disintegrated or something.” F-W, 297.
140 LONG AFTERWARD, AFTER ALL THE BOMB MAKERS: Ibid.
141 TO GET HELP WITH THE ELECTRONICS: Wilson, interview.
141 THE SENIOR THEORETICIAN CRUMPLED: Olum, interview.
142 WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE?: Ibid.
142 IT WAS LIKE A CARTOON: F-W, 298.
142 ERNEST LAWRENCE WAS CALLING A COMPETING DEVICE: Heilbron and Seidel 1989, 515–16.
143 WHEN EXPERIMENTERS TRIED HIGHER VOLTAGES: F-W, 320.
143 THE PHYSICISTS HAD TO INVENT: Ernest D. Klema, n.d., Response to Nuclear Physics Questionnaire. AIP.
143 MEANWHILE THE PROJECT’S WORST ENEMY: R. Wilson 1972, 474–75.
143 WHEN GENERAL LESLIE R. GROVES: Groueff 1967, 36–38.
144 FEYNMAN CARRIED THE ISOTRON’S FLYSPECK: F-W, 325–26. 144 THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC LECTURE HE HAD EVER HEARD: Ibid., 325.
144 WILSON WAS STUNNED: He wrote Smyth nearly a year later, from Los Alamos: “I am still not able to think objectively about the closing down of our project. It was certainly a hysterical move for the committee to shut the project down before the completion of the contract.” Wilson to Smyth, 27 November 1943, LANL.
144 SMYTH AND WIGNER BOTH FELT PRIVATELY: Davis 1968, 136.
144 LAWRENCE’S CALUTRON SIMPLY USED: Lavatelli, quoted in Davis 1968, 135.
144 FEYNMAN HAD PRODUCED DETAILED CALCULATIONS: Feynman 1942f; Feynman 1943a; Smyth and Wilson 1942, 5.
145 MY WIFE DIED THREE YEARS AGO: Olum, interview.
146 IT WAS TIME TO FINISH HIS THESIS: Wheeler