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May 20, 1998 · Scientists remember Feynman as new book is published. Deborah Halber, News Office. Publication Date. May 20, 1998. At a tribute to physicist Richard P. Feynman on May 6, a woman in the packed Tang center audience stood up and addressed panelist Carl Feynman, Dr. Feynman's 36-year-old son.
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
Their son Carl was born in 1962, and their daughter Michelle was born in 1968. Many consider him to be the father of nanotechnology for two prizes he offered in a 1959 talk entitled, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” where he prompted thinking on a very small scale.
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But if Feynman tried again and again to transmit that vision of pure knowledge, it was because for him the understanding came naturally, while for the vast majority of humans it does not. According to his biographer James Gleick —author of Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Pantheon, 1992)— it was not just that he was good at mathemat...
Henceforth, Feynman would devote his mental machinery to the complex matters that would lead him to fame and the Nobel Prize in 1965, first at Cornell University and then at Caltech. He went from the superfluidity of liquid helium to his most valuable contribution, quantum electrodynamics —”the theory of all interaction between light and matter”, n...
At the same time, his irresistible personality and his lecturing work was joined by a surge in popularity due to his participation in the Rogers Commission, which in 1986 investigated the disaster of the space shuttle Challenger. Many were astonished when the physicist dipped a fragment of an O-ring like the ones used in the ship’s rocket boosters ...
Feb 7, 2024 · Carl Feynman, computer scientist and son of Richard Feynman. Michelle Feynman , photographer and daughter of Richard Feynman. Ralph Leighton , biographer and film producer.
Jul 11, 2016 · He and his son Carl even spent a bunch of time trying to crack rule 30 using a computer. And one day he calls me and says, “OK, Wolfram, I can’t crack it. I think you’re on to something.”
Richard and Gweneth Feynman with son Carl. California Institute of Technology. Image Archive. Materials from the Caltech Archives are made available online for research purposes. Permission for reproduction, distribution, public display, performance, or publication must be obtained in writing from the Head of Archives.
