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-positron interaction, 253–54
-proton interaction, 391–95
in beta decay, 335–37
magnetic moment, 251–52
reality of, 375
self-energy, 99–102, 109–12, 239–40, 251–52, 256, 273–75, 380
in solids, 88–90, 349
spin, 229–31, 239
two-slit experiment, 247–48, 250, 366
electron microscope, 38, 355
electroweak theory, 431
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 25, 38, 49, 286, 354–55
energy, 31, 38–39
conservation of, 60, 88, 139, 330, 360–61
force vs., 87–89, 226
gravity waves and, 352
infinite, 49, 99, 253
kinetic and potential, 60–61, 121
mass and, 4, 42
negative, 122, 253
quantum mechanics and, 71–72, 74, 127
textbooks and, 398
Engineering and Science, 355–56
ENIAC, 182
entropy, 355, 362–63, 435
Erhard, Werner, 405–6
Esalen Institute, 407
est Foundation, 405
ether, 18, 42, 48, 101
Ethical Culture School (New York), 24, 159
Euclid, 34, 41, 121
evolution, 31–32, 208, 332
exclusion principle, 6–7, 255, 258
explanation, 357, 364–75
Explorer satellites, 415–16
Far Rockaway (New York), 20–24, 45–49, 64, 98, 126, 191, 409
Temple Israel, 219, 296
Far Rockaway High School, 30–36, 60–61, 302
Young People’s Socialist League, 296
Faraday, Michael, 101
Faulkner, William, 380
Faust (Goethe), 52, 66, 208, 236
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 296–97
Fermat, Pierre de, 57–58, 61, 250
Fermat’s last theorem, 267
Fermi, Enrico, 305, 309
calculating ability, 175
death, 294
Feynman and, 282–83
as genius, 322
“lightness of approach,” 166–67
nuclear reactor, 146, 157, 161
nuclear research, 79, 95, 173
at Pocono, 5, 255–57
Schwinger and, 216
at Trinity, 155, 203
Fermi-Dirac statistics, 399
Fermi interaction, see weak interaction
Feynman, Anne (paternal grandmother), 24
Feynman, Arline Greenbaum (first wife), 45–46, 64–65, 67, 69, 91, 116–17, 146, 184–88, 206, 212–14, 221–22, 264, 287, 289, 290, 343, 409–10
illness, 117, 126–27, 134–35, 149–51, 159–60, 170, 191–96, 200–202
marriage, 149–51
Feynman, Carl (son), 346, 378, 396–98, 405, 409, 435
Feynman, Gweneth Howarth (third wife), 340–47, 353, 378, 401–2, 405, 408, 426, 438
Feynman, Henry Phillips (brother), 25–26, 46, 221
Feynman, Joan (sister), 16, 19, 26–27, 30, 40–42, 46, 64, 135, 194–95, 202, 220–21, 335–36, 438
Feynman, Louis (paternal grandfather), 24
Feynman, Lucille (née Phillips, mother), 15, 19, 23, 24–26, 27–28, 32, 40–42, 46, 115, 149–51, 156, 159, 169, 182–83, 201, 213–14, 220–21, 263, 293, 346, 378–79, 397
Feynman, Mary Louise (second wife), see Bell,
Mary Louise
Feynman, Melville (father), 22, 24–26, 27–31, 40–42, 46, 68, 91, 126, 133, 149–51, 169, 176, 186, 214, 219–22, 242, 379, 388, 410
Feynman, Michelle (daughter), 346, 396–98, 401, 408, 437
Feynman, Richard Phillips
“aggressive dopiness,” 405
ambition, 34, 170, 265–66
atomic bomb and, 3, 6, 11, 15, 140, 153–205, 213, 216, 218, 224–25, 263–64, 417
awards, 295–96, 343, 375–86
beaches and, 21–22, 283–87, 339, 401
beauty and, 13, 373, 435
birth, 25
books, 11–13
The Character of Physical Law, 13, 364–71
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 12, 21–22, 37–38, 145, 357–64, 407, 435–36
Photon-Hadron Interactions, 395
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, 13
Quantum Electrodynamics, 12
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 11, 409–11
Theory of Fundamental Processes, 12
What Do You Care What Other People Think?, 11
calculating ability, 9–10, 14–15, 33–36, 60, 175–78
California Institute of Technology and, 277–78, 282–83, 293–94, 311, 338, 340–41, 349, 398, 404, 406–7, 435, 437
Challenger and, 11, 145, 415–28
childhood, 17–49
children, 346, 378, 396–98, 401, 405, 408–9, 435, 437
college admission, 49
consulting, 223, 295, 406, 434
at Cornell, 3, 10, 204, 214–22, 225–27, 277–78, 286, 288, 293–94, 365
culture and, 14, 32, 65, 83, 185, 285–87, 292
diagrams and, 7–8, 11, 17, 104, 130–31
divorce, 293
draft status, 222–25, 297
dreams, 69–70
drugs and, 14, 406
education, 30–36, 55–56, 60–61
as educator, 12, 98, 216–18, 262, 278–79, 357–60, 397–401
examinations, 30, 49, 52, 65, 66, 83–84, 130
Gell-Mann and, 11, 310–11, 315, 332–39, 346–47, 354,