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333 PURSUING THE OPEN-MIND APPROACH: Bal am et al. 1956, 27.

333 SOME STRANGE SPACE-TIME: Ibid., 28.

333 THE CHAIRMAN: Ibid.

334 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE LORD: Quoted in Bernstein 1967, 59–60.

334 WE ARE NO LONGER TRYING TO HANDLE SCREWS: Sheldon Penman, quoted in Gardner 1969, 244.

334 AT THE 1957 ROCHESTER CONFERENCE: Polkinghorne 1989, 65.

334 BUSY EXPLAINING THAT THEY PERSONALLY: Ibid., 64–65.

3 3 5 HE REFUSED TO REFEREE PAPERS: “To me there’s an infinite amount of work involved…. I’m not built that way.

I can’t think his way. I can’t fol ow and try to go through al these steps. If I want to worry about the problem, I read the paper to get the problem, and then maybe work it out some other way…. Now, to read and just check steps is— I can’t do.” F-W, 715.

335 MR. BEARD IS VERY COURAGEOUS: Feynman to Theodore Caris, 5 December 1961, CIT.

335 YOU’VE DONE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, : F-W, 727–28; Joan Feynman.

336 AS LEE POINTED OUT: In Ascoli et al. 1957.

336 IN READING LEE AND YANG’S PREPRINT: F-W, 724.

336 HE LIKED THE IDEA ENOUGH: F-W, 725–26; SYJ, 228.

336 A TWO-COMPONENT EQUATION:

336 SUPPOSE THAT HISTORICALLY: Feynman 1957b, 43.

337 OF COURSE I CAN’T DO THAT: Ibid.

337 MARSHAK AND SUDARSHAN MET WITH GELL-MANN: An

unhappy tangle of priority concerns fol owed. Marshak and Sudarshan were concerned to point out that Gel -

Mann had learned of their work in progress in July; Gel -

Mann was concerned to point out that he had been thinking about V-A “for al these years.” Marshak and Sudarshan had missed the opportunity to speak at the Rochester meeting in April—when Feynman described his two-component Dirac equation—and forever after found themselves rehearsing their reasons for remaining silent. To their deep dismay, most physicists cited the Feynman-Gel -Mann paper, not the Marshak-Sudarshan paper (Sudarshan 1983, 486; Sudarshan and Marshak 1984, 15–20). They liked to quote a generous remark of Feynman’s long afterward: “We have a conventional theory of weak interactions invented by Marshak and Sudarshan, published by Feynman

and

Gel -Mann,

and

completed

by

Cabibbo….” Feynman 1974b.

337 I FLEW OUT OF THE CHAIR: F-W, 729–30.

337 GELL-MANN, HOWEVER, DECIDED: Gel -Mann, interview.

338 BEFORE THE TENSION BETWEEN THEM: Gel -Mann, Bacher, interviews.

338 COLLEAGUES STRAINED TO OVERHEAR: Matthew Sands, interview, Santa Cruz, Calif.

338 GELL-MANN SOMETIMES DISDAINED IT: Gel -Mann 1983b; Gel -Mann, interview: “He wrote his version using a two-component formalism, of which he was very proud. I disliked the approach: I found it clumsy and unnecessary. I added a lot of material to the paper,

some good and some bad, but I didn’t succeed in changing the emphasis on the two-component formalism. That was sort of unfortunate.”

338 ONE OF THE AUTHORS HAS ALWAYS : Feynman and Gel -

Mann 1958a, 194.

338 HAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THEORETICAL: Ibid., 193.

338 THERE WAS A MOMENT WHEN I KNEW: Edson 1967, 64.

339 WE ARE WELL AWARE OF THE FRAGILITY: Feynman and Gel -

Mann 1958b.

3 3 9 IMPRESSING LISTENERS WITH THE BODY LANGUAGE: Polkinghorne 1989, 72.

339 YOU SPEAK ENGLISH: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

340 FEYNMAN ARRIVED AT A PICNIC : Susman, personal communication.

340 A NEW ERA IN HISTORY: “Red Moon over U.S.,” Time, 14

October 1957, 27.

340 ALL THE MASTERY THAT IT IMPLIES: “The Red Conquest,”

Newsweek, 14 October 1957, 38.

340 WELL, LET’S GET THIS STRAIGHT: Quoted in “The Feat That Shook the Earth,” Life, 21 October 1957, 25.

340 OUR WAY OF LIFE IS DOOMED: Ibid., 23.

340 CURLY-HAIRED AND HANDSOME : “Bright Spectrurn,” Time, 18 November 1957, 24.

341 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP IS SLIPPING: “In Science,” Newsweek, 20 January 1958, 65.

341 THEY WILL ADVANCE SO FAST : “Knowledge Is Power,”

Time, 18 November 1957, 21.

341 NO TIME FOR HYSTERIA: Reader’s Digest, December

1957, 117.

3 4 1 A STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL LET CALTECH KNOW: Feynman: “… someone from the State Department asked that Murray’s name be on it also, in order to impress. This was very unfortunate altogether. I don’t mind Murray’s name on it, that’s not the point, but this kind of crap. They cal up—so many Russians are going to talk about this thing, they have to have more Americans talking about something scientific … this stuff about propaganda mixing up with the science, you know.” F-W, 744.

341 IT REMINDED HIM OF THE FLOPHOUSES: WDY, 63–65.

341 SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS MAKING HER WAY: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

342 I’VE DECIDED TO STAY HERE: Gweneth Howarth to Feynman, 13 October 1958, PERS.

343 HE CONSULTED A LAWYER: Sands, interview.

343 FEYNMAN CALCULATED FARES: Gweneth Howarth to Feynman, 1 November 1958, PERS.

343 YOU’LL WRITE & TELL ME: Gweneth Howarth to Feynman, 1 December 1958, PERS.

343 I’M IMPROVING, AM I NOT: Gweneth Howarth to Feynman, 2

January 1959, PERS.

344 YOU DO NEED SOMEONE: Gweneth Howarth to Feynman, 14 January 1959, PERS. 344 SHE IS AN INTELLIGENT GIRL: Feynman to American Consulate General, Zurich, 22

January 1959, PERS.

344 SHE HAD TO AVOID ENGELBERT: Gweneth Howarth to Feynman, 14 February 1959.

344 FROM WHAT MORAL HIGH GROUND: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

345 BUT FEYNMAN’S ATTORNEYS ADVISED HIM: Samuel C. Klein to Robert F. Diekman, 22 September 1959, and Robert F. Diekman to Feynman, 30 September 1959, PERS.

345 WELL, AT LAST: Feynman to Gweneth Howarth, 28 May 1959, PERS.

345 SHE SURREPTITIOUSLY INTRODUCED COLORED SHIRTS: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

346 AT FIRST HE KEPT HER PRESENCE SECRET: Gweneth Feynman, Gel -Mann, interviews.

346 SO THIS IS HOW WE’RE STARTING LIFE: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

346 MURRAY GELL-MANN, WHO HAD MARRIED: Gel -Mann 1989a, 50.

346 AN IMAGE LODGED IN GELL-MANN’S MEMORY: Ibid.

347 HELLO, MY SWEETHEART: Feynman to Gweneth Feynman, 11 October 1961, PERS.

347 AGE IS, OF COURSE, A FEVER CHILL : E.g. Kragh 1989, 347n.

348 TO CONVEY A SENSE OF HOW “DELICATELY": QED, 7.

348 WE HAVE BEEN COMPUTING TERMS: Feynman 1961a, 17.

348 NOTE THE CUNNING OF REASON AT WORK: Schweber, forthcoming.

348 WE VERY MUCH NEED A GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Weinberg 1977a, 33.

348 “DIPPY” AND “A SHELL GAME": QED, 128.

349 THE ELECTRON DISTORTS THE LATTICE: Feynman 1955a; Feynman et al. 1962.

349 HIS CALTECH SALARY: Salary records, Lee DuBridge papers, CIT.

349 HE STARTED TELLING PEOPLE: Susman, personal communication.

349 FEYNMAN TOLD HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD GO: F-W, 751.

349 FEYNMAN BEGAN IN THE SUMMER: Notebook, “Biochemical Techniques,” CIT; F-W, 751.

3 5 0 UNDERSTANDING WHEN A THING IS REALLY KNOWN : F-W, 753.

350 HE FOCUSED ON A PARTICULAR MUTATION : Benzer 1962; Crick 1962; Crick 1966.

350 FEYNMAN COMPARED FINDING: Susman, personal communication.

350 FRIENDS OF HIS IN THE LABORATORY: Robert Sinsheimer to Feynman, n.d., “Dear Feyntron … ,” CIT; “Mutual Suppression of rI Mutants of Bacteriophage T4D,” draft by Robert Sinsheimer, CIT. F-W, 752: “I knew they were very interesting and unusual, but I didn’t write it up.” He did contribute to a group paper in Genetics, however: Edgar, Feynman, et al. 1961.

351 THE SPECIALISTS HAD AN ADVANTAGE : Crick et al. 1961; Crick 1962.

351 THE STORY OF THE GENETIC CODE: Crick 1966, 55–56.

351 QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SMEARING OF SPACE-TIME: Gel -Mann 1989a, 53.

352 THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE IS WEAK : Alexander J. Glass, letter to Physics Today, May 1988, 136.