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201 THE CROUP’S PRODUCTIVITY HAD RISEN: Bethe, interview.

201 HE HAD INVENTED A SYSTEM: F-W, 371–74.

201 WHEN HE REACHED HER ROOM: Ibid., 343–46; F-L for WDY, 50–53.

202 THE NURSE RECORDED: Certificate of Death, PERS.

202 HE CAME IN AND SAT DOWN: Robert and Dorothy Walker,

interview, Tesuque, N.M.

202 WHEN HE COMES IN: Joan Feynman, interview.

202 AN ARMY CAR MET HIM: Feynman to Lucil e Feynman, 9

August 1945, PERS.

203 IF A MAN HAD MERELY CALCULATED : De Hoffman 1974, 171–72. 203 CREATED NOT BY THE DEVILISH INSPIRATION: Smyth 1945, 223.

204 NO MONOPOLY: Notes, n.d., PERS.

204 MOST WAS KNOWN: Ibid.

204 IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES: Oppenheimer to Birge, 26 May 1944, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 276.

204 BIRGE FINALLY CAME THROUGH: Oppenheimer informed Birge of Feynman’s choice in a blisteringly formal tone:

“I am glad that you are going to take steps to increase the strength of the department…. Several months ago Dr. Feynman accepted a permanent appointment with the Physics Department at Cornel University. I do not know details of salary and rank, but they are presumably satisfactory to him. I shal of course do my best to cal to your attention any men who are available

…”(5 October 1944, in Smith and Weiner 1980, 284).

The California offer did prompt Cornel , at Bethe’s urging, to raise Feynman’s salary before he arrived. His

“potential” salary was $3,000; when Berkeley offered $3,900, Cornel agreed to $4,000. Bethe had written: “I know that it is unusual to raise a man’s salary before he has even seen the University at which he is employed.

The justification, I believe, is given by the unusual times

and by the intimate knowledge that we here have acquired of Feynman’s qualities.” Bethe to R. C. Gibbs, 24 July 1945, and Gibbs to Feynman, 3 August 1945, CIT.

205 FEYNMAN BECAME THE FIRST OF THE GROUP LEADERS: Hawkins et al. 1983, 304.

205 IT WAS ON HIS LAST TRIP: WYD, 53.

CORNELL

Bethe provided access to his papers. Dyson shared copies of his remarkable letters home during these years (my portrait of him relies on these, on his various memoirs, on Brower 1978, and on Schweber, forthcoming).

Schwinger col ected the key scientific texts (1958) and gave his own rich perspective (1983). They and the other central figures in the postwar development of quantum electrodynamics al provided their oral recol ections, as did Theodore Shultz, Michel Baranger, Evelyn Frank, Arthur Wightman, Abraham Pais, and others. Paul Hartman (1984) shared his entertaining history of the Cornel physics department and correspondence with Feynman about space flight. My discussion of scientific visualization is indebted to Arthur Mil er 1984 and 1985, Bruce Gregory 1988, Schweber 1986a, Park 1988, essays by (and a conversation with) Gerald Holton, and Feynman’s own introspection. My accounts of Feynman’s relationships with women, in this chapter and the next, are based on correspondence in his personal papers and on my

interviews with each of the women whose relationships are described in any detail; however, in the notes that fol ow, I usual y omit individual citations of these letters and interviews for reasons of privacy.

207 AMONG THE DIVINITIES: Charles Clayton Morrison, “The Atomic Bomb and the Christian Faith,” The Christian Century, 13 March 1946, 330.

207 WHAT OPPENHEIMER PREACHED: Oppenheimer 1945, 316.

208 IT’S A TERRIBLE THING: SYJ, 118.

208 AND RIGHTLY SO: Oppenheimer 1945, 317.

208 WHEN YOU COME RIGHT DOWN TO IT: Ibid.

209 THE EVENTS OF THE PAST FEW YEARS: Truman, “Problems of Post-War America,” 6 September 1945, in Vital Speeches 11(1945):23.

209 BEFORE THE WAR THE GOVERNMENT HAD PAID: Kevles 1987, 341.

209 THE QUIET TIMES WHEN PHYSICS: R. Wilson 1958, 145.

210 THE NATURE OF THE WORK: Oppenheimer 1945, 315–16.

210 IN THE FIRST, HE SAT DOWN: Hartman 1984, 202.

210 IN THE SECOND, TWO MONTHS AFTER HIROSHIMA: Bishop 1962, 560; Hartman 1984, 238.

211 HE DEBARKED WITH A SINGLE SUITCASE: F-W, 415.

211 THE WEEK BEFORE FEYNMAN ARRIVED: Bishop 1962, 556.

211 HUGE RAKED PILES OF LEAVES: F-W, 417.

212 LOOK, BUDDY: Ibid., 419; cf. SYJ, 149–51.

212 SPEECH PATTERNS STRUCK HIM: “It was completely—like the nervousness of working during the war. And this

university in the backwoods … was going at the typical university rate … he’s talking so slowly and batting the breeze about the weather.” F-W, 418.

212 OUTSIDE, THREE TENNIS COURTS: Hartman 1984, 204–5.

212 MORRISON HAD BEEN LURED: Philip Morrison, interview, Cambridge, Mass.

212 FEYNMAN DEPRESSED IS JUST A LITTLE MORE CHEERFUL : Quoted in Schweber 1986a, 468; Feynman said, “I got deeper and deeper into a kind of— I wouldn’t say depression, because I wasn’t depressed. I’m a lively and happy fel ow….” F-W, 425.

212 HE SPENT TIME IN THE LIBRARY: SYJ, 155.

212 HIS DANCE PARTNERS LOOKED ASKANCE: F-W, 423; SYJ, 154.

212 EVEN BEFORE LEAVING LOS ALAMOS: E.g. Olum, interview; Walker, interview. One physicist’s wife said, “He exploded like a sexual firecracker.”

213 NOW I WANT YOU TO KNOW: Lucil e Feynman to Feynman, 17 June 1945, PERS.

213 BEGGING HIM TO COME HOME: Lucil e Feynman to Feynman, 21 June 1945, PERS.

213 THIS IS THE PRINCETON TRIANGLE: Lucil e Feynman to Feynman, 8 August 1945, PERS.

213 I FELT THRILLED & FRIGHTENED: Ibid.

213 BY THE WAY: Ibid.

214 RICHARD, WHAT HAS HAPPENED: Lucil e Feynman to Feynman, n.d., PERS.

215 HE PRIDED HIMSELF ON SPEAKING: Schwinger, interview.

215 A MAN POSSESSED: Polkinghome 1989, 14.

215 I ABANDONED MY BACHELOR QUARTERS: Schwinger 1983, 332. 215 THEIR FIRST ENCOUNTER: E.g., Crease and Mann 1986, 129.

215 ARE YOU A MOUSE OR A MAN? : Norman Ramsey and Rabi, quoted in Schweber, forthcoming; Bernard T Feld, talk at Julian Schwinger’s 60th birthday celebration, February 1978, AIR

216 EVEN BEFORE SCHWINGER GOT HIS COLLEGE DIPLOMA: Schweber, forthcoming.

216 SCHWINGER MADE ONE TOUR: Schwinger, interview.

216 WHEN HE HAD LONG SINCE: Feynman 1978.

216 THE HARVARD COMMITTEE: Schweber, forthcoming.

217 PHENOMENA COMPLEX—LAWS SIMPLE: “Methods of Math Phys 405,” Notebook, PERS.

218 WHETHER HE WOULD SUCCEED: Robert Walker, interview.

218 IN AN ATOM BOMB: “Methods of Math Phys 405.”

218 ANNOUNCER: LAST WEEK DR. FEYNMAN: “The Scientist Speaks,” transcript, radio broadcast, WHCU, 26 April 1946, OPR

218 THE RAYS EMITTED: Ibid.

218 AT LOS ALAMOS HE HAD INVENTED: Hawkins et al. 1983, 308.

218 I BELIEVE THAT INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL : Feynman to Paul Hartman, 5 December 1945, PERS.

219 FLYING UPSIDE DOWN: Ibid.

220 HE RETURNED HOME AND OCCASIONALLY SNEAKED OUT: Joan Feynman, interview.

220 ONE DAY FEYNMAN SAW HIM: F-L.

220 IT IS NOT SO EASY FOR A DOPE: Melvil e Feynman to

Feynman, 10 September 1944, PERS.

220 THE DREAMS I HAVE OFTEN HAD: Ibid.

221 ON FEYNMAN’S FACE WAS A LOOK : Joan Feynman, interview.

221 CORNELL’S 1946 FALL-TERM ENROLLMENT: Bishop 1962, 555.

221 D‘ARLINE, I ADORE YOU: Feynman to Arline Feynman, 17

October 1947, PERS.

223 FEYNMAN’S VERSION OF THE STORY: F-W, 620; SYJ, 137.

The latter was dictated more than twenty years later but sometimes tracks the first version with uncanny, verbatim precision. The Selective Service files were destroyed, as the FBI discovered in assembling its dossier on Feynman. FOI.

226 FEYNMAN WAS INVITED: Princeton University 1946; F-W, 433–34; Wigner 1947; Feynman to Dirac, 23 July 1947, PERS.

226 DIRAC’S PAPER: Dirac 1946.