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There were previous Einstein Awards, as far as I know, or something…. I was kind of confused. “F-W, 673–74.

296 FEYNMAN’S OWN FILE AT THE FBI: 497 pages, partly

expurgated, FOI.

296 PROFESSOR FEYNMAN IS ONE OF THE LEADING: Bethe to M.

Evelyn Michaud, 7 April 1950, and Michaud to Bethe, 27 March 1950, BET.

297 ONE OF ITS PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS : Sakharov 1990, 190–

91.

298 I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED: Feynman to Atomic Energy Commission, 14 January 1955, CIT.

Also: “Is there danger that I would be kept there and not return?” Feynman to State Department, 14 January 1955, FOI.

298 PROPAGANDA GAINS: Walter J. Stoessel, Jr., “Invitation to United

States

Physicist

to

Attend

Scientific

Conference,” confidential memorandum, Department of State, 21 January 1955, FOI; Stoessel, Jr., to Feynman, 15 March 1955, CIT.

2 9 8 CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE ARISEN : Feynman to A. N.

Nesmeyarrov, 14 March 1955, CIT.

298 THIS IS A CLEAR CASE: “Scientist at Caltech Warned,” Los Angeles Times, 8 April 1955.

299 WHEN FEYNMAN TALKED ABOUT FLUID FLOW: Lectures, I -

40–1.

299 THEORISTS OF “DRY WATER": Lectures, I -40–3 and I I-4–

12.

300 TWO CITIES UNDER SIEGE: Feynman 1957a, 205.

300 NORWEGIAN I AND NORWEGIAN II: Donnel y 1991b.

300 THE MOST BASIC CLUE: Feynman 1955b, 18.

301 THE SPEAKERS HAD NO IDEA: Russel Donnel y, telephone

interview.

301 HE HAD TRIED TO PICTURE: Feynman 1953c, 1302.

302 THE CHALLENGE WAS TO DRIVE: “The hardest part of the helium problem was done by physical reasoning alone, without being able to write anything…. it was very very interesting to be able to push through that doggoned thing without having stuff to write.” F-W, 739.

301 HE LAY AWAKE IN BED: F-W, 693–95.

302 THE RINGS OF ATOMS WERE LIKE RINGS OF CHILDREN: Feynman 1958a, 21.

302 TYPICAL FEYNMAN: Donnel y, interview.

303 POSSIBLY I UNDERSTAND: Note, “Possibly I understand

…” n.d., CIT.

303 THE YEAR BEFORE, SCHRIEFFER HAD LISTENED: Robert Schrieffer, telephone interview; Feynman 1957a.

303 WE HAVE NO EXCUSE: Feynman 1957a, 212.

304 BY THE FIRST OF THESE MEETINGS: Pais 1986, 461; Polkinghorne 1989, 20.

304 WITHIN A FEW YEARS PARTICLE TABULATIONS : Polkinghorne 1989, 21.

304 GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE BEEN INVADED: C. F. Powel , at a 1953 conference, quoted in Polkinghorne 1989, 48.

305 ONE EXPERIMENTALIST, MARCEL SCHEIN: Crease and Mann 1986, 178.

305 You have a different theory: F-W, 603–5.

306 If a Caltech experimenter: Barry Barish, interview, Pasadena.

307 HE THOUGHT PAIS WAS WRONG: Cel -Mann 1982, 399.

307 AT FOURTEEN HE HAD BEEN DECLARED: Columbiana 1944

(Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School), 28; Bernstein 1987, 20.

308 THE ONLY PERSON WHO WILL KNOW: Ralph Leighton, interview, Pasadena.

308 IT WAS THE CLOSEST TO SUCCESS: Cel -Mann, interview.

308 IT WAS HIS BROTHER: Gel -Mann 1989b, 3.

309 WHEN WEISSKOPF ADVISED HIM: Gel -Mann, interview.

309 FEYNMAN FELT A FLICKER OF ENVY: F-W, 670; SYJ, 223.

309 GELL-MANN, IN CHICAGO, FELT EVEN MORE: “Jealousy was another reason … I resented the publicity being given to the scheme of Pais, which I was convinced was wrong!”

Gel -Mann 1982, 399.

310 THE EDITORS OF THE PHYSICAL REVIEW: Gel -Mann 1953; Gel -Mann 1982, 400.

310 WHY SHOULD A BROAD-MINDED THEORIST: Quoted in Polkinghorne 1989, 49. Similarly, the historian ). L.

Heilbron: “‘Strangeness,’ a word barely utterable in Romance languages and expressive of a surprise only briefly felt…. Does the new terminology express cynicism or disdain by particle theorists toward their own creations?” “An Historian’s Interest in Particle Physics,” in Brown et al. 1989, 53.

310 THE WINTER FERMI DIED: Gel -Mann, interview.

311 MOST OF HIS BODY WAS CREMATED: Thomas S. Harvey, telephone interview; Wil iam L. Laurence, “Key Clue Sought in Einstein Brain,” New York Times, 20 April 1955; Steven Levy, “My Search for Einstein’s Brain,”

New Jersey Monthly, August 1978, 43.

3 1 1 VARIOUS NINETEENTH-CENTURY RESEARCHERS: Could

3 1 1 VARIOUS NINETEENTH-CENTURY RESEARCHERS: Could 1981.

312 IS THERE A NEUROLOGICAL SUBSTRATE : Obler and Fein 1988, 6.

313 ENLIGHTENED, PENETRATING, AND CAPACIOUS MINDS : Duff 1767, 5.

313 RAMBLING AND VOLATILE POWER: Ibid., 9.

313 IMAGINATION IS THAT FACULTY: Ibid., 6–7.

314 IN POINT OF GENIUS: Gerard 1774, 13.

314 A QUESTION OF VERY DIFFICULT SOLUTION: Ibid., 18.

315 IT IS ONE OF THE HOPES: Quoted in Root-Bernstein 1989, 1.

315 A PHYSICIST STUDYING QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: Coleman, interview.

315 FROM GEOMETRY TO LOGARITHMS: Hood 1851, 10–11.

316 THE ASTROPHYSICIST WILLY FOWLER: Thorne, interview; Fowler, interview conducted by Charles Weiner, 30

May 1974, AIP: “I just thought Feynman’s talking through his hat, what can he possibly mean, what can general relativity have to do with these objects?”

316 THAT FEYNMAN HAD SIGNED: John S. Rigden, interview, New York.

317 WHY DO I CALL HIM A MAGICIAN? : Quoted in Dyson 1979, 8–9.

317 MAGICAL MUMBO-JUMBO: Dyson 1979, 8.

318 BETWEEN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MAN: Lombroso 1891, xiii.

319 LET EUROPEAN ROMANTICS CELEBRATE: Currie 1974.

319 I SPEAK WITHOUT EXAGGERATION: Quoted in Grartan 1933, 156.

156.

319 MR. EDISON IS NOT A WIZARD: Quoted in LaFol ette 1990, 97.

320 EDISON WAS NOT A WIZARD: Grartan 1933, 151.

320 HONEST CRAFTSMEN: Dyson 1979, 9.

321 HE WAS SEARCHING FOR GENERAL PRINCIPLES: Ibid., 62–

63.

321 SO WHAT IS THIS MIND OF OURS?: WDY, 220.

322 KNOWING WHAT FERMI COULD DO: Zuckerman 1977.

323 I THINK IF HE HAD NOT BEEN SO QUICK: Coleman, interview.

324 THE WHOLE QUESTION OF IMAGINATION: Lectures, I -20–10.

325 NOT JUST SOME HAPPY THOUGHTS: Ibid.

325 OUR IMAGINATION IS STRETCHED: CPL, 127–28.

325 WE KNOW SO VERY MUCH: Feynman to Welton, 10

February 1947, CIT

326 THERE ARE SO VERY FEW EQUATIONS: Ibid.

326 MAYBE THAT’S WHY YOUNG PEOPLE: Feynman 1965c.

326 WELTON, TOO, WAS PERSUADED: Welton, interview: “I said,

‘Dick, think in retrospect what would have happened if I had taught you the Q.E.D. that I knew— you would have known too much, and you wouldn’t have been able to innovate as much,’ and he said, ‘You’re right.’”

326 WOULD I HAD PHRASES: Attributed to Khakheperressenb, quoted in Lentricchia 1980, 318.

326 THERE ARE NO LARGE PEOPLE: Quoted by Scott Spencer,

“The Old Man and the Novel,” New York Times Magazine, 22 September 1991, 47.

327 GIANTS HAVE NOT CEDED: Gould 1983, 224. 329 THOSE

COUNTLESS FOOTNOTES: Merton 1961, 72.

329 I ALWAYS FIND QUESTIONS LIKE THAT: Feynman to James T.

Cushing, 21 October 1985, CIT.

330 WEISSKOPF DECLARED AT ONE MEETING: Polkinghorne 1989, 61.

331 FEYNMAN HIMSELF CONFESSED: Mil ard Susman, personal communication, 29 May 1989.

331 EVERYTHING’S REALLY ALL RIGHT : Untitled videotape, n.d., recorded for the British Broadcasting Corporation; cf.

Gardner 1969, 22–23.

331 CHEMISTS CAN MAKE THEM WITH EITHER HANDEDNESS: Feynman 1965e, 98–100.

332 GELL-MANN SPENT A LONG WEEKEND: Gel -Mann, interview.

332 BY THE TIME THE 1956 ROCHESTER CONFERENCE: Pais 1986, 524.

333 BE IT RECORDED HERE THAT ON THE TRAIN: Ibid., 525.

333 AN EXPERIMENTER ASKED FEYNMAN WHAT ODDS: “I mention this story because I was prejudiced against thinking that parity wasn’t conserved, but I knew it might not be. In other words, I couldn’t bet one hundred to one, but just fifty to one.” F-W, 721.