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411 “LISTEN,” I SAID TO THE DISPATCHER: SYJ, 236.

4 11 A NICE BROOKLYN RING: Edwin Barber to Feynman, 2

March 1984, CIT.

411 GELL-MANN’S RAGE COULD BE HEARD: E.g., Tuck, interview.

411 OF COURSE IT WASN’T TRUE: SYJ, 229. He also changed

“Murray Gel -Mann and I wrote a paper on the theory” to

“Murray Gel -Mann compared and combined our ideas and wrote a paper on the theory” (232). Gel -Mann stil cal ed it “that joke book.” He knew that Feynman had not deliberately tried to take undeserved credit, but he was hurt nonetheless. “He was not at al a thief of ideas

—even very generous in some ways,” Gel -Mann said.

“It’s just that he was not always capable of regarding other people as real y existing.”

411 A NIFTY BLONDE: SYJ, 241 and 168.

412 OUT WITH HIS GIRL FRIEND: Lectures, I-3–7.

412 DEAR ROTHSTEIN: DON’T BUG ME: “Protest,” mimeograph sheet, CIT.

412 HE HAD SPENT MANY PLEASANT HOURS: Jenijoy La Bel e, interview, Pasadena; “Feynman Commends La Bel e,”

letter to California Tech, 5 March 1976; La Bel e 1989.

413 AND, LIKE FALLING IN LOVE: NL, 435.

413 SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD THEORY: NL, 456.

413 THERE IS IN THE WORLD OF PHYSICS: Feynman 1972e, 1.

414 GENERALLY MR. FEYNMAN IS NOT JOKING: Morrison 1985, 43.

414 NOT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Feynman to Robert Crease, 18 September 1985, CIT. And Feynman to Klaus Stadler, 15 October 1985, CIT: “This shows a complete misunderstanding of the nature of my book…. It is not in any way a scientific book, nor a serious one. It is not even an autobiography. It is only a series of short disconnected anecdotes, meant for the general reader which, we hope, the reader wil find amusing.”

414 WHAT I REALLY WAS: Feynman to Crease.

414 A HALF-HOUR AFTER THE LAUNCH: Richard Witkin,

“Canaveral Hopes for Success Fade,” New York Times, 6 March 1958, 1.

414 THEY USED A ROOM-SIZE: Hibbs, interview.

416 AN OUTSIDE GROUP OF EXPERTS: “Reagan names panel on shuttle explosion,” Walter V. Robinson, Washington Post , 4 February 1986, 1.

417 ARMSTRONG SAID ON THE DAY: “President Names 12-

Member Panel in Shuttle Inquiry,” Gerald Boyd, New York Times, 4 February 1986, 1.

417 WE ARE NOT GOING TO CONDUCT: Ibid. In the commission’s first closed session, on February 10, he emphasized: “This is not an adversarial procedure. This commission is not in any way adversarial …” Report, IV, 244.

417 YOU’RE RUINING MY LIFE: Wil iam R. Graham, telephone interview.

417 FEYNMAN WAS NOW SUFFERING: Haskel , interview.

417 FEYNMAN HIMSELF REFUSED TO CONSIDER: Haskel , interview.

417 HE IMMEDIATELY ARRANGED A BRIEFING : Hibbs, interview; Charles Lifer, interview; Winston Gin, interview; WDY, 119–21.

419 ROGERS OPENED THE FIRST: Report, IV, 1.

419 IN RESPONSE, MOORE DENIED: Ibid., 21.

419 A CONCERN BY THIOKOL: Ibid., 97.

419 NEWSPAPER REPORTS THE NEXT DAY: Esp. David Sanger,

“NASA Seems Surprised By Aggressive Queries,”

New York Times, 7 February 1986, A19.

419 THIS IS WHAT WE WOULD HAVE CALLED: Report, IV, 220.

419 EVERYTHING THAT I KNOW: Ibid., 221.

420 WHEN WE ASK QUESTIONS: Ibid., 222.

420 YOU SAID WE DON’T EXPECT IT: Ibid., 224.

420 CO-PILOT TO PILOT: Donald J. Kutyna, interview, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.; WDY, 126.

420 I HAVE A PICTURE OF THAT SEAL: Report, IV, 224.

421 THE LACK OF A GOOD SECONDARY SEAL : “August 19, 1985

Headquarters Briefing,” Report, I, 139; WDY, 135.

4 2 1 LOSS OF VEHICLE, MISSION, AND CREW: “NASA Had Warning of a Disaster Risk Posed by Booster,” Philip Boffey, New York Times, 9 February 1986, 1.

422 YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS LEAK: WDY, 139–40; Kutyna, interview. Feynman misremembered this as a telephone conversation.

422 I THINK IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING: Report, IV, 244.

422 LAWRENCE MULLOY, PROJECT MANAGER: Ibid., 291.

422 HOW ARE THESE MATERIALS, THIS PUTTY AND THE RUBBER : Ibid., 347.

423 IF THIS MATERIAL WEREN’T RESILIENT: Ibid., 345.

423 HE HAD MADE AN OFFICIAL REQUEST: WDY, 146.

423 FEYNMAN IS BECOMING A REAL PAIN : David Sanger, personal communication.

424 YOU DIDN’T, I ASSUME: Report, IV, 380–82.

424 MULLOY, UNDER FURTHER QUESTIONING: “NASA Acknowledges Cold Affects Boosters Seals,” Philip Boffey, New York Times, 12 February 1986, 1.

424 THE PUBLIC SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES: Dyson 1992, 284.

425 TO EXAGGERATE: to exaggerate how economical: WDY, 214.

425 ONE OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE: Report, I, 1.

426 IT WAS A GREAT BIG WORLD: WDY, 158.

426 KUTYNA TOLD HIM HE WAS THE ONLY: Kutyna, interview; WDY, 156.

426 IN BETWEEN, HE MADE REPEATED VISITS: F-L.

426 I AM DETERMINED TO DO THE JOB: Feynman to Gweneth Feynman, 12 February 1986, quoted in WDY, 157.

426 THE COMMISSION STRONGLY RECOMMENDS: WDY, 200–

201.

427 HISTORY OF O-RING PROBLEMS HAD BEEN REPORTED: E.g.

Report, I, Appendix H; Graham, interview.

427 OVERALL HE ESTIMATED: Feynman 1986, F-2. 427 A KIND

OF RUSSIAN ROULETTE: Report, I, 148.

427 IT HAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD: Ibid., IV, 817.

428 A TEAM OF STATISTICIANS: Dalai et al. 1989; Bruce Hoadley, telephone interview.

428 FEYNMAN DISCOVERED THAT SOME ENGINEERS: WDY, 182–

83.

428 FOR A SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY: Feynman 1986, F-5.

EPILOGUE

429 RATHER THAN EMBARRASS THEM: Lectures, I-16–1.

430 DID THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE IMPOSE: Lectures, I-6–

10.

430 THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE SIGNALED: Hawking 1987, 55.

430 IT IS USUALLY THOUGHT THAT THIS INDETERMINACY: Lectures, I-38–9.

430 IF WATER FALLS OVER A DAM: Ibid.

431 FIFTY YEARS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS: Cahn and Goldhaber 1989, ix.

432 A CONTRIVED INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE: Schwartz 1992, 173.

432 PEOPLE SAY TO ME, “ARE YOU LOOKING: F-Sy.

432 WE MAY NOW BE NEAR THE END: Hawking 1987, 156.

432 I’VE HAD A LIFETIME OF THAT : Interview conducted by P. C.

W. Davies, transcript, CIT.

433 YOUR CAREER SPANS THE PERIOD: Interview conducted by Robert Crease, 22 February 1985; transcript, courtesy of Crease. Robert Crease to Feynman, 18 July 1985, CIT.

434 I SEE YOU’VE MET DICK: Robert Crease to Feynman, 18

July 1985, CIT.

435 FORGET ALL THAT “LOCAL MINIMA” STUFF: Hil is 1989, 82.

435 AND HE BEGAN TO PRODUCE MAVERICK RESEARCH: Feynman 1982; Feynman 1984. 435 THE PHYSICAL

REVIEW OF THE BLIND MEN: Lectures, I -20–11.

435 WE ARE ALL REDUCTIONISTS TODAY : Weinberg 1987a, 66; Weinberg, personal communication.

436 THE INFINITE VARIETY AND NOVELTY: Lectures, I -41–12.

436 HE MAY ALSO BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE: Einstein and Infeld 1938, 31.

4 3 6 ONE OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS: Mermin 1985, 47; Feynman 1982, 471.

437 I HAVE DECIDED IT IS NOT A VERY GOOD IDEA: Feynman to Lee Dye, 23 September

1987, CIT.

437 IT IS REALLY LIKE THE SHAPE: Ulam 1976, xi.

437 I’M GOING TO DIE: Michel e Feynman, interview.

437 HE WAS WATCHED AND GUARDED : Joan Feynman, Gweneth Feynman, and Frances Lewine, interviews.

438 TAUGHT PEOPLE MOST OF THE GOOD STUFF: Hil is 1989, 83.

438 YOU SEE, ONE THING IS, I CAN LIVE: F-Sy.

438 I’D HATE TO DIE TWICE: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

A FEYNMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

Because almost al Feynman’s work originated with the spoken word, and because its publication took so many shapes, formal and informal, no final bibliography wil ever be compiled. Neither Feynman nor the Caltech libraries maintained more than a partial listing. Some lectures were published repeatedly, in journals and col ections, in versions that vary slightly or not at al . Others exist only in the form of Feynman’s notes before the fact, a student’s handwritten notes after the fact, a university preprint, a typed transcript, an edited or unedited conference proceeding, a file on a computer disk, or a video- or audiotape. Some manuscripts are virtual y intact and publishable; others are no more than notes on a placemat; and in between is an unbroken continuum.