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Feynman
- Hobbies
- Played bongos
- for San Fransisco Ballet
- patron of a topless bar
- go-go dancers
- fascination with safecracking
- Convinced the bomb files
were not well enough
protected
- After war managed to open bank safe,
where documents for construction of
bomb were located, demonstrating the
edge in which our civilization teeters on
- drumming
- art
- signed "Ofey"
- Wanted to describe emotion
about world
- Experimentation with LSD
- powerful hallucinogenic drug
- Teaching
- Family
- wives
- Arline Greenbaum
- After engagement she began to get
symptoms of mystery illness (fevers,
pain, and large lumps that would
appear and disappear)
- Diagnosed with lymphatic tuberculosis (possibly from unpasteurized milk)
- Married after but couldn't kiss for
fear of Feynman contracting
- Feynman's mother apparently said union should be "illegal"
- While working towards PhD at Princeton they became engaged
- visited her at a sanitarium (in Albuquerque) on weekends, while working on Manhattan Project
- Richard was working in Los Alamos (2 hours away)
- After a year brought her to Los Alamos
- Nurses unable to provide her with
care she needed for awful stage of
terrible illness
- (doctors thought would only last for 2 years) died in 1945 right before...
- Met in high school
- longtime sweetheart
- By Junior year he wanted to marry
- Wrote, "I have however, other desires and aims in the world. One of them
is to contribute as much to physics as I can. This is, in my mind, of even
more importance than my love for Arline.”
- called her "Putzi"
- He was unable to come to terms with
the fact that she was dying. In his
letters he told her to "be nicer", stop
complaining, stop crying, and be
stronger.
- Compartmentalized his feelings
- Only at the end in his second-to-last
letter he seems to finally have
accepted the graveness of her
illness. He apologizes and expresses his regret
- died a month before the first atomic bomb was detonated in the desert
- He got a call while at Los Almos, that told him that Arline was dying.
- raced over and was with her when she took her last breath
- compartmentalized
- didn't cry until months afterwards when he
walked past a department store, saw a
dress and thought Arline would like it
- wrote many letters to her after death
- “I find it hard to understand in my mind
what it means to love you after you are
dead—but I still want to comfort and
take care of you – and I want you to love
me and care for me.”
- “I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you
want me to have full happiness and don't want to be in
my way. I'll bet that you are surprised that I don't even
have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years.
But you can't help it darling, nor can I—I don't understand
it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don't
want to remain alone—but in two or three meetings they
all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real. My
darling wife, I do adore you. I love my wife. My wife is
dead. Rich P.S. Please excuse my not mailing this—but I
don't know your new address."
- “When you were sick you worried because you
could not give me something that you wanted
to and thought I needed. You needn't have
worried. Just as I told you then there was no
real need because I loved you in so many ways
so much. And now it is clearly even more
true—you can give me nothing now yet I love
you so that you stand in my way of laving
anyone else—but I want to stand there. You,
dead, are so much better that anyone else
alive.”
- Gweneth Howarth
- stayed together
for remainder of
life
- Mary Louise Bell
- Did not truly love and
soon divorced
- kids
- Carl Richard
- Michelle Catherine
- sister - Joan became
astrophysicist
- Awards
- co-awarded nobel prize in physics (1965)
- b/c of work on for work in quantum electrodynamics
- w/ Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga
- Oersted Medal for Teaching in 1972
- Albert Einstein Award (1954, Princeton)
- Einstein Award
- Lawrence Award (1962)
- Projects
- Manhattan Project
- became youngest group leader
in theoretical division
- served on the presidential commission investigating
- of 1986 explosion of the Challenger
- Education/life
- Education
- Attended MIT as an
undergraduate
- Attended
Princeton for his
PhD
- life
- died from
abdominal
cancer at 69 in
1988
- born in NYC in 1983
- Far Rockaway, Queens
- Cite
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/no-other-love-heart-wrenching-letters-from-richard-feynman-to-his-late-wife-arline
- https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-feynman-file
- https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-drawings-paintings-of-richard-feynman.html