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195 AT THE MAYO CLINIC: Waksman 1964, 127–28.

196 THE DOCTOR WHO FIRST ISOLATED: Ibid., 115–18.

196 WORKERS HANDLING PLUTONIUM: Hawkins et al. 1983, 163–64.

196 ONE MAN, HARRY DAGHLIAN: L. Fermi 1980, 99; de Hoffman 1974, 166–67; Frisch 1979, 159–60.

197 FEYNMAN HIMSELF PROPOSED A SAFER EXPERIMENT: Hawkins et al. 1983, 89.

197 AT TELLER’S REQUEST: E. Teller to R. F. Bacher, 27 March 1944, LANL.

198 HE BECAME RESPONSIBLE FOR CALCULATING: E.g., K. T. Bainbridge to Members of Committee on Fabrication and Assembly of Active Materials, 20 July 1944 and 5 September 1944, LANL.

198 IT IS EXPECTED THAT A CONSIDERABLE FRACTION: Bethe to Oppenheimer, 8 November 1944, and Bethe to Bacher, 3 January 1945, LANL; Robert F. Bacher, interview, Santa Barbara, Calif.

198 COMPLETE AUTHORITY: Bethe to Oppenheimer, 26 January 1945, LANL.

198 DEAR SIR, AT THE PRESENT TIME: J. L. Patterson to Major W. E. Kelley, 19 September 1944, and W. E. Kelley to Feynman, 21 September 1944, LANL.

198 AS SECRE HAD DISCOVERED: Feynman 1975, 119–21.

198 FEYNMAN BEGAN BY RETRACING: F-H, 33.

199 HE REALIZED THAT THE PLANT WAS HEADED: F-W, 353–54.

199 IN ANSWER TO THE EASTMAN SUPERINTENDENT’S QUESTION: Feynman to Major W. E. Kelley, 27 September 1944, LANL.

199 DURING CENTRIFUGING SOME PECULIAR MOTION: Feynman to Colonel Arthur E. Peterson, 18 September 1945.

199 IS CT-1 EMPTY WHEN WE DROP: Notes, LANL.

199 HE ALSO INVENTED A PRACTICAL METHOD: Feynman 1945.

199 A FEW PEOPLE, LONG AFTERWARD: E.g.: “Unknowingly, he saved my life and the lives of everyone at Oak Ridge in those challenging years …” Irwin H. Goodwin to Ralph Leighton, 8 December 1988.

199 FEYNMAN’S FIRST VISIT TO OAK RIDGE: F-L for SYJ, 104.

199 YOU SHOULD SAY: Los Alamos cannot accept: Feynman 1975, 122.

200 HE HAD TO GROW UP FAST: Ibid.

200 SOMETIME THAT SPRING IT STRUCK HIM: F-H, 14.

200 HITCHHIKING BACK ONE SUNDAY NIGHT: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 24 May 1945, PERS.

200 BUT THEY WERE KIND OF UGLY: Ibid.

200 MY WIFE: I AM ALWAYS: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 6 June 1945, PERS.

201 ONE NIGHT HE AWOKE: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 14 June 1945, PERS.

201 THE CROUP’S PRODUCTIVITY HAD RISEN: Bethe, interview.

201 HE HAD INVENTED A SYSTEM: F-W, 371–74.

201 WHEN HE REACHED HER ROOM: Ibid., 343–46; F-L for WDY, 50–53.

202 THE NURSE RECORDED: Certificate of Death, PERS.

202 HE CAME IN AND SAT DOWN: Robert and Dorothy Walker, interview, Tesuque, N.M.

202 WHEN HE COMES IN: Joan Feynman, interview.

202 AN ARMY CAR MET HIM: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 9 August 1945, PERS.

203 IF A MAN HAD MERELY CALCULATED: De Hoffman 1974, 171–72. 203 CREATED NOT BY THE DEVILISH INSPIRATION: Smyth 1945, 223.

204 NO MONOPOLY: Notes, n.d., PERS.

204 MOST WAS KNOWN: Ibid.

204 IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES: Oppenheimer to Birge, 26 May 1944, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 276.

204 BIRGE FINALLY CAME THROUGH: Oppenheimer informed Birge of Feynman’s choice in a blisteringly formal tone: “I am glad that you are going to take steps to increase the strength of the department…. Several months ago Dr. Feynman accepted a permanent appointment with the Physics Department at Cornell University. I do not know details of salary and rank, but they are presumably satisfactory to him. I shall of course do my best to call to your attention any men who are available …”(5 October 1944, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 284). The California offer did prompt Cornell, at Bethe’s urging, to raise Feynman’s salary before he arrived. His “potential” salary was $3,000; when Berkeley offered $3,900, Cornell agreed to $4,000. Bethe had written: “I know that it is unusual to raise a man’s salary before he has even seen the University at which he is employed. The justification, I believe, is given by the unusual times and by the intimate knowledge that we here have acquired of Feynman’s qualities.” Bethe to R. C. Gibbs, 24 July 1945, and Gibbs to Feynman, 3 August 1945, CIT.

205 FEYNMAN BECAME THE FIRST OF THE GROUP LEADERS: Hawkins et al. 1983, 304.

205 IT WAS ON HIS LAST TRIP: WYD, 53.

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