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178 SIMILARLY, WORKING WITH BETHE: Bethe, interview.

179 THEY WERE RARELY USED: Metropolis and Nelson 1982, 348–49.

180 LET’S LEARN ABOUT THESE DAMNED THINGS: Metropolis, interview.

180 THEY SPENT HOURS TAKING APART : Bethe, interview;

Metropolis 1990, 237; Metropolis and Nelson 1982, 349.

180 ESCALATION OF THE COMPUTATION EFFORT : Metropolis and Nelson 1982, 350.

181 SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL WERE THEY: Weisskopf 1991, 134.

181 EVEN BEFORE THE IBM MACHINES ARRIVED: F-W, 362–63; Brode 1960; Feynman 1975, 125.

182 HE LEFT FEYNMAN WITH TWO ENDURING MEMORIES: Feynman 1975, 129.

182 FEYNMAN THOUGHT AT FIRST: F-H, 55–56: “We discovered a very annoying thing that we didn’t understand…. When we set up the differential equation, we solved it numerical y and the numbers seemed to come out irregularly. Then we would check and it would be the same thing…. The points would sort of wiggle around irregularly, and [von Neumann] explained that that was correct, that was al right, that was very interesting…. And there was nothing we could do about it. We just had to live with it, and we did…. We were terribly surprised by the fact that we would do the numbers over again, and it was the same crazy irregularities.”

182 EACH TIME IT IS TURNED ON. T. Reid 1984, 14; Alt 1972, 693; Metropolis and Nelson 1982, 352.

182 SOME INTERESTING PROPERTIES OF NUMBERS: The lecture later became an element of his course at Cornel in mathematical methods and then, refined once again, became a remarkable set piece in his Feynman

Lectures on Physics. Feynman to Lucil e Feynman, 29

February 1944; Lectures, I-22.

182 ALL THE MIGHTY MINDS: Feynman to Lucil e Feynman, 29

February 1944.

184 HE IS BY ALL ODDS THE MOST BRILLIANT: Oppenheimer to Birge, 4 November 1943, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 269.

184 HE IS A SECOND DIRAC: Oppenheimer to Birge, November 4 1943, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 269.

184 SHE LAUGHED, ASKING: Arline Feynman to Lucil e and Melvil e Feynman, 28 June 1943; F-L for SYJ, 46.

185 ONCE, IN A FANCIFUL CONVERSATION : Moss 1987, 68. 185

A PIONEER PEOPLE STARTING A NEW TOWN: Brode 1960, 7.

185 THE MOST EXCLUSIVE CLUB IN THE WORLD: James Tuck, quoted in Davis 1968, 184.

185 WHAT EXACTLY IS SQUARE: Tuck, quoted in Brode 1960, 7.

185 ONE PARTY FEATURED AN ORIGINAL BALLET: Brode 1960, 6.

186 CODES, CIPHERS OR ANY FORM OF SECRET WRITING: Reprinted in Jette 1977, 130.

186 IT’S VERY DIFFICULT WRITING: Feynman 1975, 112.

187 RICHARD AND ARLINE TALKED ABOUT: Ibid.

187 THERE ARE CAPTAINS: Feynman to Lucil e Feynman, 10

December 1943.

187 I EXPLAINED IT TO HIM: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 8

March 1945.

187 THE SECURITY STAFF TOLERATED THEM: Hirschfelder, in Badash et al. 1980, 79.

187 THE NEW DISPENSER STRUCK FEYNMAN: Olum, interview.

187 THE NEW DISPENSER STRUCK FEYNMAN: Olum, interview.

187 HE HAD GOT SO DRUNK: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 9

May 1945, PERS.

188 MORALLER AND MORALLER: Ibid.

188 TWO MEN ARRIVED: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 4 April 1945, PERS.

188 BECAUSE I LIKE PUZZLES SO MUCH: Ibid.

188 THAT ONE INSIGHT: SYJ, 124.

189 THE LOS ALAMOS PHYSICISTS: E.g., Frisch 1979, 154.

189 I OPENED THE SAFES: F-L for SYJ, 121–22.

189 THIS LAST INSIGHT ALONE: SYJ, 133.

189 BY FIDDLING WITH HIS OWN SAFE: Ibid., 124–25.

190 FEYNMAN REVELED IN THE CLOUDS: Feynman to Lucil e Feynman, 10 December 1943, PERS.

190 SEE, I’M GETTING AN AESTHETIC SENSE: Ibid.

1 9 1 NOT CERTAIN WHETHER THIS TIME: Ian McEwan, The Innocent (New York: Dou-bleday, 1990), 85.

191 HE WOULD SIT IN A CROUP: F-W, 317.

191 HE FOUND A WAY : Feynman to Arline Feynman, 3 April 1945, PERS.

191 YOU ARE A STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: Ibid.

192 DON’T GET SCARED THO: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 24

April 1945.

192 YOU’RE NEVER THAT: Arline Feynman to Feynman, February 1945.

192 THE SCIENTISTS WERE IN AN UPROAR: R. Wilson 1974, 160.

193 I DO NOT KNOW—ALTHOUGH THERE ARE THOSE: Cohn 1943, 56–57; Arline Feynman, handwritten notes, PERS.

193 DARLING I’M BEGINNING: Arline Feynman to Feynman, 16

January 1945.

193 SHE REMINDED HIM OF THE FUTURE: Arline Feynman to Feynman, 17 January 1945.

194 WE HAVE TO FIGHT HARD: Ibid.

194 DRINK SOME MILK: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 2 May 1945, PERS.

194 HER WEIGHT HAD FALLEN: Arline Feynman, notebook of medical records and expenses, PERS.

194 YOU ARE A NICE GIRL : Feynman to Arline Feynman, 2

May 1945.

194 TIME PASSES FAST: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 19 April 1945, PERS.

194 HE HAD HEARD ABOUT A NEW DRUG : Feynman to Richard Gubner, draft, n.d:, and Gubner to Feynman, 29 August 1944 and 14 November 1944, PERS.

194 JOAN WAS DAZZLED: Joan Feynman to Arline Feynman, 29 April 1945, PERS.

195 HE THOUGHT HE SAW SYMPTOMS: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 18 May 1945.

195 HAVE IT DONE BY A SPECIALIST : Henry Barenblatt to Arline Feynman, 19 April 1945 and 23 April 1945, PERS.

195 A DOCTOR AT LOS ALAMOS TOLD RICHARD : Feynman to Arline Feynman, 3 May 1945.

195 THE SAME DOCTOR: Ibid.

195 PS. 59-TO-BE: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 15 May 1945.

195 HE DRIFTED THROUGH THE PAGES: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 17 May 1945.

195 KEEP HANGING ON: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 9 May

1945.

195 ENTIRE NATION CELEBRATES: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 10 May 1945.

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. Tel er 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.

1 9 8 COMPLETE AUTHORITY: Bethe to Oppenheimer, 26

January 1945, LANL.

198 DEAR SIR, AT THE PRESENT TIME: J. L. Patterson to Major W. E. Kel ey, 19 September 1944, and W. E. Kel ey 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. Kel ey, 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 chal enging 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.