Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [283]
266 THAT STORMY NIGHT IN OUR LITTLE ROOM: Dyson 1979, 63.
266 ON WEDNESDAY OPPENHEIMER RETURNS: Dyson to parents, 10 October 1948, quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
267 THERE WASN’T ENOUGH ROOM: Leonard Eyges to Dyson, quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
267 A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUBJECT: Dyson 1949a, 486.
267 THERE IS THE FATHER INCOMPREHENSIBLE: Dyson 1989, 35–36.
267 ANY MODERATELY INTELLIGIBLE ACCOUNT: Dyson to parents, 4 October 1948.
267 SO THE RESULT OF ALL THIS: Ibid.
268 THEIR EVALUATION GIVES RISE: Dyson 1949a, 491.
268 WRITE DOWN THE MATRIX ELEMENTS: Ibid., 495.
268 IT WAS “SCHWINGER’S THEORY": Oppenheimer 1948.
269 DEAR FREEMAN: I HOPE YOU DID NOT GO BRAGGING: Feynman to Dyson, 29 October 1948, CIT.
270 WELL, DOC, YOU’RE IN: Dyson to parents, quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
270 FEYNMAN HAD NOT LEARNED: NL, 452.
271 HE BUTTONHOLED SLOTNICK: F-W, 489–92.; NL, 452; F-Sch; Schweber, forthcoming.
271 WHAT ABOUT SLOTNICK’S CALCULATION?: Later Case sent Feynman his manuscript, and Feynman found an algebraic error that undermined the proof. F-W, 495–96.
271 THERE WERE VISIONS AT LARGE: Schwinger 1983, 343.
272 THE REST MASS PARTICLES HAVE: Feynman 1948b, 943.
272 FEYNMAN AND I REALLY UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER: Dyson to parents, 1 November 1948.
272 FEYNMAN’S STUDENTS, HOWEVER, SOMETIMES NOTICED: Baranger, interview.
272 HE HAD STARTED HEARING ABOUT DYSON GRAPHS: Cf. F-W, 501.
272 WENTZEL HIMSELF: Crease and Mann 1986, 143.
273 FEYNMAN STRESSED HOW FREE: Feynman 1949b, 773.
275 FOR A WHILE IT WAS ALL SCHWINGER: F-W, 499.
275 IN THE SUMMER OF 1950: J. Ashkin, T. Auerbach, and R. Marshak, “Notes on a Possible Annihilation Process for Negative Protons,” Physical Review 79(1950):266.
275 A TECHNIQUE DUE TO FEYNMAN: K. A. Brueckner, “The Production of Mesons by Photons,” Physical Review 79(1950):641.
275 THE UNREASONABLE POWER OF THE DIAGRAMS: Segrè 1980, 274.
276 LIKE THE SILICON CHIP: Schwinger 1983, 343. 276 PEDAGOGY, NOT PHYSICS: Ibid., 347.
276 YES, ONE CAN ANALYZE EXPERIENCE: Ibid., 343.
277 ALTHOUGH ‘ONE’ IS NOT PERFECTLY: Bernstein 1987, 63.
277 THEY ALSO WORRIED ABOUT SCHWINCER’S ABILITY: Sheldon Glashow, interview, Cambridge, Mass.
277 MURRAY GELL-MANN LATER SPENT A SEMESTER: Murray Gell-Mann, interviews, Pasadena and Chicago.
278 THERE WAS A NEW NOTE: E.g., Virginia Prewett, “I Homesteaded in Brazil,” Saturday Evening Post, 22 April 1950, 10, began, “It’s going to be the first atomic-bomb shelter in the New World.” Cf. F-W, 551.
278 AT LEAST A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF WAR: Wheeler to Feynman, 29 March 1951, CIT.
278 WHEN A BRAZILIAN PHYSICIST: Lopes 1988; J. Leite Lopes, personal communication.
278 LATE THE NEXT WINTER HE IMPULSIVELY ASKED: Jayme Tiomno to Feynman, 6 March 1950, PERS. The Brazilians replied that a one-year appointment was the best they could offer at the time.
278 HE HAD ENDURED ONE TOO MANY DAYS: F-W, 546; Bacher, interview.
278 ALL THE INS AND OUTS: Feynman to Bacher, 6 April 1950, PERS.
278 I DO NOT LIKE TO SUGGEST: Ibid.
279 ONCE (AND IT WAS NOT YESTERDAY): Cvitanoviç 1983, 6.
CALTECH
Three local histories are Judith Goodstein’s Millikan’s School, Ann Scheid’s Pasadena: Crown of the Valley, and Kevin Starr’s Inventing the Dream; they were useful background, as was Robert Kargon’s essay ‘Temple to Science.” I’ve also relied on the recollections of many present and former Caltech professors, students, and administrators. Some information on Feynman’s time in Brazil comes from the recollections of José Leite Lopes (1988 and personal communication), Cecile Dewitt-Morette, and others; from Feynman’s 1951 correspondence with Fermi; from Brownell 1952; from Feynman’s talk “The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America” (1963a), and from publications of the Centra Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas. Documentation of the government’s secret scrutiny of Feynman and of his consultation with the State Department on the advisability of travel to the Soviet Union came through my