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250 THE TREACHEROUSLY INNOCENT EXERCISES: See QED.

251 SEMIEMPIRICAL SHENANIGANS: NL, 451; F-W, 459.

251 HE PROMISED BETHE AN ANSWER: NL, 449; F-W, 459.

251 WHEN FEYNMAN HEARD LATE IN THE FALL: F-W, 462 f.

251 GOD IS GREAT: Rabi to Bethe, 2 December 1947, and Bethe to Rabi, 4 December 1947, BET. Quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.

252 THE SCHWINCER-WEISSKOPF-BETHE CAMP: Feynman to Corbens, 20 March 1948, CIT.

252 HIS LECTURE DREW A CROWD: “The Prodigy Who Grew,” Newsweek, 23 February 1948, 45–46; William L. Laurence, “New Guide Offered on Atom Research,” New York Times, 1 February 1948; Stephen White, “Physics Society Hears Theory of Electron Action,” New York Herald Tribune, 1 February 1948, 51.

252 I DID IT TOO, DADDY: F-W, 463–64.

252 I’M SO SORRY: Rose McSherry to Feynman, 21 January, 1948, PERS.

253 MONTHS PASSED BEFORE FEYNMAN CALLED: Feynman formally acknowledged the error in a footnote to a paper published the next year; he juggled the footnotes so that the apology would fall in number 13: “That the result… was in error was repeatedly pointed out to the author, in private communication, by V. F. Weisskopf and J. B. French…. The author feels unhappily responsible for the very considerable delay in the publication of French’s result occasioned by this error.” Feynman 1949b, 777; Weisskopf, interview; Weisskopf 1991, 168.

253 A HOLE IF THERE WERE ONE: Dirac in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 133(1931):60.

253 SUPPOSE A BLACK THREAD: Feynman 1948f 2–3.

254 A CORNELL STUDENT WHO HAD SERVED: Schweber 1986a, 488.

254 A BOMBARDIER WATCHING A SINGLE ROAD: Feynman 1948f, 4; cf. Feynman 1949a, 749.

254 HE KNEW FROM HIS OLD WORK: Feynman 1947, 1.

255 USUAL THEORY SAYS NO: Ibid., 4.

255 IT MAY PROVE USEFUL IN PHYSICS: Ibid.

256 FEYNMAN GLEEFULLY SAID: Marshak, interview. Instead these mesons were named muon and pion, after Greek letters.

256 AS THE POCONO MEETING OPENED: Wheeler 1948.

256 EACH SMALL VOLUME OF SPACE: Ibid.

257 SCHWINGER HATED THIS: Schwinger, interview.

257 BETHE NOTICED THAT THE FORMAL MATHEMATICS: F-W, 469; Bethe, interview.

257 FERMI, GLANCING ABOUT: Segrè 1970, 174.

257 THIS IS A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA: F-W, 470.

258 HE THOUGHT IT INTELLECTUALLY REPULSIVE: Schwinger, interview.

258 BOHR HAS RAISED THE QUESTION: Wheeler 1948.

258 BOHR CONTINUED FOR LONG MINUTES: F-W, 473; cf. Pais 1986, 459, but this conflates Teller’s and Bohr’s objections.

258 I HAD TOO MUCH STUFF: F-Sch.

258 ON HIS FIRST DAY BACK: Arthur Wightman, interview, Princeton, N.J.

259 YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT I WAS HIGHLY PLEASED: Quoted in Schweber, forthcoming. 259 ANONYMOUSLY, HE HOPED: Feynman 1948e, 9.

259 A MAJOR PORTION OF THE CONFERENCE: Ibid., 5.

259 WHEN SCHWINGER SAW FEYNMAN’S NAME: Schwinger 1983, 342.

260 TOMONAGA, A NATIVE OF TOKYO: Tomonaga 1966, 127–29.

260 AFTER SUPPER I TOOK UP MY PHYSICS: Quoted in Julian Schwinger, ‘Two Shakers of Physics,” in Brown and Hoddeson 1983, 357–58.

260 HE MADE A HOME: Schweber, forthcoming.

261 JUST BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE: Oppenheimer to Members of the Pocono Conference, 5 April 1948, OPP.

261 OTHER PEOPLE PUBLISH TO SHOW HOW: Dyson 1965a, 428.

261 SCHWINGER OCCASIONALLY HEARD: Schwinger 1983, 341.

261 I GATHER I STAND ACCUSED: Ibid.

261 ARE WE TALKING ABOUT PARTICLES: Schwinger, interview.

262 YOUR SUDDEN DEPARTURE FROM ITHACA: Lloyd P. Smith to Feynman, 13 June 1947, CIT.

263 FEYNMAN THOUGHT DYSON: WDY, 65.

263 DYSON LIKED THE ROLE: Dyson to parents, 25 June 1948.

263 HE HAD DECIDED THAT MODERN AMERICA: Dyson to parents, 14 June 1948.

263 AN ATOMIC BLAST ON EAST 20TH STREET: Morrison 1946; SYJ, 118.

264 DYSON SUDDENLY FELT THAT FEYNMAN: Dyson 1979, 59; Dyson to parents, 25 June 1948.

264 AS WE DROVE THROUGH CLEVELAND: Dyson 1979, 60–61.

264 SOMETIMES IT OCCURRED TO HIM: F-W, 532.

264 DYSON HAD NEVER SEEN RAIN: Dyson 1979, 59.

264 THE CAR RADIO REPORTED: Dyson to parents, 25 June 1948.

264 THIS HOTEL IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT: WDY, 65.

265 IN THAT LITTLE ROOM: Dyson 1979, 59.

265 THE ROOM WAS FAIRLY CLEAN: WDY, 66. Dyson, far from taking