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21 WHEN I WAS A CHILD: Kazin 1951, 8–10.

21 IT SOMETIMES SEEMED THAT THE THINGS NEAR THE SEA: Feynman-Kriegsman.

2 1 SOMETIMES FELT GAWKY: Evelyn Frank, interview, Marina del Rey, Calif.

22 IF WE STAND ON THE SHORE: Lectures , I -2-1.

22 IS THE SAND OTHER THAN THE ROCKS?: Ibid.

22 WHEN FEYNMAN RETURNED: Gweneth Feynman, interview, Altadena; Feynman-Kriegsman.

22 THOSE LITTLE HATS THAT THEY WEAR: Feynman-Kriegsman.

23 THAT WAS THE WAY THE WORLD WAS: Ibid.

24 LUCILLE WAS THE DAUGHTER: Lucil e Feynman, interview conducted by Charles Weiner, MIT Oral History Program, 4 February 1981.

25 DON’T GET MARRIED: Ibid.

25 DON’T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS: Ibid.

25 BEFORE THE BABY WAS OUT: F-W, 7–8.

25 HE WAS TWO BEFORE HE TALKED: Lucil e Feynman-Weiner.

25 TWENTY-FIVE FEET HIGH: F-Sy.

25 HER MOTHER SUFFERED: Joan Feynman, interview.

26 WITήIN DAYS THE BABY: Ibid.

26 A BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND A HAT: Ibid.

26 SOME EVENINGS THE ADULTS: Lewine, interview.

26 THE HOUSEHOLD HAD TWO OTHER: Joan Feynman, interview conducted by Charles Weiner, MIT Oral History Program, 30 July 1981; Lewine, interview.

27 LOOK UP: Joan Feynman, “Relinquishing the Aurora,”

letter, Eos, 1989, 1649.

27 RITT? WIRED HIS LABORATORY: F-W, 35–37.

27 IT WORKS!: Joan Feynman, interview.

27 IT WAS WORTH IT: F-W, 34.

28 SO THAT HE CAN BETTER FACE THE WORLD: Melvil e Feynman to Feynman, 10 September 1944, PERS.

28 WHEN A CHILD DOES SOMETHING: Ibid.

28 WHEN MELVILLE TOOK HIS SON: F-W, 14.

28 SEE THAT BIRD?: WDY , 13–14.

29 “THAT,” HE SAYS, “NOBODY KNOWS ”: F-Sy; cf. “Inertia,” notes, n.d., CIT: “Is inertia an intrinsic fundamental force which wil always defy a more ultimate analysis? Or is inertia a force which has its origin in the workings of other recognized forces like gravitation or electricity?”

30 IT’S A WAY OF DOING PROBLEMS: F-W, 15.

30 JOANIE, IF 2 x : Joan Feynman-Weiner.

30 ALGEBRA 2, TAUGHT BY MISS MOORE: Leonard Mautner, interview. Pacific Palisades, Calif.

30 HIS SCORE ON THE SCHOOL IQ TEST: Feynman 1965 d , 15.

30 AN INTELLECTUAL DESERT: F-W, 39

30 A SET OF FOUR EQUATIONS: Ibid., 23 and 39.

30 ALL FEYNMAN REMEMBERED: Ibid., 38

31 ENERGY PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART : “Energy,” poem, n.d., AIP.

31 SCIENCE IS MAKING US WONDER: “We Are Forgetful,” poem, n.d., AIP.

32 SISSY-LIKE: F-L; edited version in SYJ , 67.

32 THE SIGHT OF A BALL: WDY , 24.

32 ANXIETY WOULD STRIKE: Ibid., 21.

32 HIS FIRST CHEMISTRY SET: F-W, 33

32 GOODY-GOOD: Ibid., 21; Feynman 1965 d , 11.

32 IN PHYSICS CLUB: The Dolphin , Far Rockaway High School, June 1935, 33.

3 3 MATH TEAM: SYJ , 10–11; Jerry Bishop, telephone interview; Novera H. Spector, telephone interview.

34 A LOUD SIGH: Feynman 1965 d , 12.

34 FEYNMAN PLACED FIRST: The Dolphin , Far Rockaway High School, June 1935, 33.

34 TWO CHILDREN IN HIGH SCHOOL: F-W, 63; Mautner, interview.

36 MR. AUGSBURY ABDICATED: Harold I. Lief to Ralph Leighton, 10 December 1988.

36 MAD GENIUS: The Dolphin , Far Rockaway High School, June 1935.

36 SOME OBSERVATIONS SUPPORTED THE NOTION: Melsen 1952, 22.

37 HOW DO SHARP THINGS STAY SHARP: F-W, 46.

37 ALL THINGS ARE MADE OF ATOMS: Lectures, I-1–2

38 BELIEVE THE EXISTENCE OF ATOMS: Bohr 1922, 315.

38 PURE CHEMISTRY, EVEN TO-DAY: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 13th ed., 1926, 870.

39 MATTER IS UNCHANGEABLE: Boscovitch 1922, 36; Park 1988, 200–201.

40 THE SCIENCE KNOWN AS CHEMICAL PHYSICS: Slater 1975, 193.

40 WE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO RECOGNIZE: Bohr was creating publicity for his philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics. The press cooperated enthusiastical y, although it posed difficulties for headline writers.

Wil iam L. Laurence of the New York Times wrote optimistical y: “The new theory is expected … to take its place alongside relativity and quantum mechanics as one of the revolutionary developments of modern scientific thought…. Professor Bohr, after a lifetime of contemplation of both the ponderables and the imponderables of the physical and mental world, has come to discover an inherent essential duality…. In other words the very process of knowing one aspect of nature makes it impossible for us to know the other aspect.” “Jekyl -Hyde Mind Attributed to Man,” New York Times, 23 June 1933, 1.

40 FOR THE OCCASION: Joan Feynman-Weiner, 28–29.

40 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: F-W, 78.

41 NEW YORK IN 1982: Chase 1932, 13.

41 ELECTRICITY POWERED THE HUMAN BRAIN: Wil iam A.

Laurence, “Brain Phone Lines Counted as 1 Plus 15

Mil ion Zeroes,” New York Times, 25 June 1933.

41 IN AN OPENING-DAY STUNT: Dedmon 1953, 334.

41 HERE ARE CATHERED THE EVIDENCES: “Chicago Fair Opened by Farley; Rays of Arcturus Start Lights,” New York Times, 28 May 1933.

41 A 151 -WORD WALL MOTTO: “Science in 151 Words,” New York Times, 4 June 1933.

42 EINSTEIN’S SUPPOSED CLAIM: Cf. Kevles 1987, 175, and Pais 1982, 309. Einstein seems not to have disavowed the remark when given the chance.

42 LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS: New York Times, 9

November 1919, quoted in Pais 1982, 309.

42 A SERIES OF EDITORIALS: Pais 1982, 309.

42 MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED BOOKS: Clark 1971, 247.

42 TRANSMITTED BY UNDERWATER CABLE: Kevles 1987, 175.

42 WE HAVE EINSTEIN’S SPACE: Quoted in Clark 1971, 242.

44 THERE ARE NO PHYSICISTS IN AMERICA: Raymond T. Birge to John van Vleck, 10 March 1927, quoted in Schweber 1986ft, 55–56.

45 I BELIEVE THAT MINNEAPOLIS: Quoted in Kevles 1987, 168.

45 ON THE BEACH SOME DAYS: Lewine, interview; Joan Feynman, interview; Joan Feynman-Weiner.

45 SHORTLY HE FOUND HIMSELF LYING: F-W, 117.

45 ONE HORRIBLY RUDE BOY: Ibid., 118

46 ALL LEFT HIM FEELING INEPT: WDY, 20–23.

46 WITH THE COMING OF THE DEPRESSION: Joan Feynman-Weiner.

46 TO THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: Ibid., 31—32.

4 6 THE RADIO HAD PENETRATED: “Modernistic Radios,” New York Times, 4 June 1933.

46 HE REWIRED A PLUG: F-W, 105–7.

46 HE FIXES RADIOS BY THINKING!: SYJ, 3.

47 WHAT ARE YOU DOING?: F-W, 107–8; SYJ, 7–8.

47 MERELY TO FIND A MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK : Feynman 1965d, 10.

47 IF A BOY NAMED MORRIE JACOBS: Feynman to Morris Jacobs, 27 January 1987, CIT.

47 HE RECOGNIZED THE PLEASURE: Feynman 1965d, 11.

48 SCHWINGER KNEW HOW TO FIND BOOKS: Schweber, forthcoming. 48 THE PHYSICAL REVIEW: Kevles 1987, 218.

48 THAT YEAR HE CAREFULLY TYPED OUT: Julian Schwinger, interview, Bel Air, Calif.; Schwinger 1934. He later said (1983), he had been “parrot[ing] the wisdom of my elders, to be later rejected.”

4 9 THEY AMAZED A DINNER PARTY : Marvin Goldberger, interview, Pasadena. 49 HE LONG RESENTED THE LOSS: F-W, 113; WDY, 33.

MIT

Among Feynman’s fel ow students and fraternity brothers, T. A. Welton, Conyers Herring, John L. Joseph, Monarch L.

Cutler, Leonard Mautner, Maurice A. Meyer, and Daniel Robbins contributed the most revealing interviews. Welton has set down his recol ections of Feynman in a manuscript titled “Memories” (CIT), and the American Institute of Physics has the notebook in which he and Feynman developed their view of quantum mechanics. Feynman’s MIT transcript and some other academic records were preserved in his personal papers. The archives of MIT

provided some correspondence and yearbooks. Joan Feynman made available her brother’s letters to her and her parents. Other important sources include: on physics at