Bookreport on Richard Feynman
From May 11, 1918 until March 15, 1988, Richard Feynman was thinking about physics. He made many contributions both large and small throughout his life, from working on the Manhattan Project, to winning the Nobel Prize. Richard Feynman was born to Melville and Lucille Feynman in Far Rockaway, New York on Mya 11th, 1918 and began his fascination with physics. His father can take a good amount of credit for this as he set out to stimulate Richard to think from an early age in a scientific way. Melville used to play games with Richard using small colored tiles while he was sitting in his high chair. Melville would have Richard setup the tile on end in no particular order and then topple them, eventually creating patterns for Richard to mimic in order to get him to think about patterns and the basics of mathematical relations. Melville also took Richard to the American Museum of Natural History and bought a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica to help expand his sons learning abilities. Richard went through school just like any other child but did most of his learning outside of school through books and encyclopedias. He learned much of his math before it came time to learn it in school, but when that time came, subjects
He had slipped into a coma and later died on February 15, 1988 The Challenger space shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. The years of research and thinking he did to gain an understanding of QED is enough to fill one lifetime, but he still kept working to solve new problems in physics. Feynman met his third and final wife, Gweneth Howarth while attending a peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Melville persuaded an acquaintance to provide the recommendation. He worked for a few months on the uranium separation project before returning to his thesis, which he finished in a few weeks, submitted it, and went back to work with Wilson's team. An examination and a $15 charge to would-be students to take it were required to enroll in Columbia, Richard took the exam and passed but was denied enrollment to Columbia because they had already filled up their Jewish student quota for that year. Feynman and his math team would travel to schools to compete in these competitions. Each member of the team was given a time limit to solve a problem independently. Without Richard Feynman, the world of physics may still not fully understand QED and chemistry as we know it today may not be possible. His only other choice was MIT, which required a recommendation from a MIT graduate. Among the members of that team was Feynman, along with William Graham, a graduate student at Caltech 30 years before who had attended one of Feynman' classes. Feynman had been intrigued by Paul Dirac's work on Quantum Theory and had made it his research focus for his PhD. QED is an exceptional example of a successful theory, a theory that predicts with great precision the outcome of experiments. At the time, he was down in Brazil teaching classes so in order to get information on all the current experiments he had to go to amateur radio operators to contact a radio in Pasadena where current information would be passed on to Feynman. Gweneth was an adventurous 24-year-old Englishwoman from Yorkshire, England.
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