= Richard Feynman
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= Feynman
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Some of Feynman's key characteristics are:
* obsession with understanding the experiments well, see also <how to teach and learn physics>{full}
* when doing more <mathematical> stuff, analogous obsession about starting with a concrete example and then generalizing that into the theory
* liked to teach others. At <Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman> for example he mentions that one key problem of the <Institute for Advanced Study> is that they didn't have to teach, and besides that making you feel useless when were not having new ideas, it is also the case that student's questions often inspire you to look again in some direction which sometimes happens to be profitable
He hated however mentoring others one to one, because almost everyone was too stupid for him
* interest in other <natural sciences>, and also random art and culture (and especially if it involves pretty women)
Some non-Physics related ones, mostly highlighted at <Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick (1994)>:
* <Feynman was a huge womanizer during a certain period of his life>
* he hated pomp, going as far as seeming uneducated to some people in the way he spoke, or going out of his way to look like that. This is in stark contrast to "rivals" <Murray Gell-Mann> and <Julian Schwinger>, who were posh/snobby.
Even <Apple> thinks so according to their <Think different> campaign: http://www.feynman.com/fun/think-different/
<quantum electrodynamics> lectures:
* <Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979)>
Feynman was apparently seriously interested/amused by <computer>:
* <video Los Alamos From Below by Richard Feynman (1975)> see description for the human <emulator>
* <quantum computers as experiments that are hard to predict outcomes> was first attributed to Feynman
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture (1986)
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMsgxIIQEE]
{title=<Murray Gell-Mann> talks about Richard Feynman's intentional anecdote creation}
{description=TODO original interviewer, date and source. Very amusing, he tells how Feynman wouldn't brush his teeth, or purposefully forget to wear jacket and tie when going to the faculty canteen where it was required and so he would use ugly emergency jacket the canteen offered to anyone who had forgotten theirs.}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PH4H29g_wQ]
{title=<Murray Gell-Mann> talks about Feynman's partons by <Web of Stories> (1997)}
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Listener is likely this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_West[Geoffrey West]. Key quote:
\Q[Feynman of course, as usual, put it in a form so that the common people could use it, and experimentalists all over the world now thought they understood things because Feynman had put it in such simple language for them.]
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Two official websites?
* http://www.richardfeynman.com/ this one has clearly superior scientific information.
* http://www.feynman.com/
High level timeline of his life:
* <MIT>
* <Manhattan Project>
* <Princeton University>
* <Cornell University>
* <Caltech>
In 1948 he published his reworking of classical <quantum mechanics> in terms of the <path integral formulation>: https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.20.367 Space Time Approach to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (paywalled 2021)