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18 unusual facts about Richard Feynman


Albert Hibbs

Hibbs earned his Ph.D. in 1955 under Richard Feynman, with a dissertation titled "The Growth of Water Waves Due to the Action of the Wind".

Edward Manukyan

Manukyan has dedicated many of his compositions to scientists, such as biologists James D. Watson, Francis Crick, physicists Steven Weinberg, Richard Feynman, linguist Noam Chomsky and astronomer Victor Ambartsumian.

GIANTmicrobes

Anna Kuchment in Newsweek magazine writes that toy designer Drew Oliver thought of making giant microbes on reading Richard Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! which described seeing a microbe in a drop of water.

Hamilton's principle

Richard Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics is based on a stationary-action principle, using path integrals.

Hong–Ou–Mandel effect

Since the state of the beam splitter does not "record" which of the four possibilities actually happens, Feynman's rule dictates that we have to add all four possibilities at the amplitude level.

John Urquhart Cameron

During his time in California he attended lectures given at Caltech by the great theoretical Physicist Richard Feynman.

Neil J. Gunther

1989, he developed a Wick-rotated version of Richard Feynman's quantum path integral formalism for analyzing performance degradation in large-scale computer systems and packet networks.

Old Codes New Chaos

The track "Feinman" features a quote from Richard Feynman, the last line of his report into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Pantograph

Richard Feynman used the analogy of a pantograph as a way of scaling down tools to the nanometer scale in his talk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.

Paul Ré

Paul has received enthusiastic reviews from scientists and Nobel Laureates Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Richard Feynman and Roger Sperry; artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Raymond Jonson, and Ed Garman; Caltech President Emeritus Tom Everhart and many others.

Peter R. Holland

The method achieves the same result as Richard Feynman's use of trajectories in the path integral formulation – the mapping of the initial wavefunction through time – however, instead of using Feynman's 'all possible paths' between two points, it employs at most one path.

Ripponden

Nobel Prize winning physicist Prof Richard Feynman was a regular visitor to the village in the 1960-1980s, with his wife who was born locally.

Rod Crewther

He studied under the tutelage of Nobel prizewinner Murray Gell-Mann and completed his doctorate, in 1971, after successfully defending his dissertation against the renowned theorist Richard Feynman.

Sev’yan I. Vainshtein

In the late 1990s, the well-known Russian filmmaker Leonid Kruglov visited Vainshtein with the proposal to produce a film about his expeditions into Tuva, using as a ‘red line’ Vainshtein’s correspondence with American Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, who had written him a letter in 1981 requesting his help in securing a visa to visit Tuva, which, was not granted during Feynman’s lifetime.

Thirty Eight

Calculations by Richard Feynman at the Oak Ridge facility during the '40's argue against.

Tsutomu Shimomura

-- date needed --> he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.

Unit hyperbola

:The arrow of time goes from the bottom to top of the figure — a convention adopted by Richard Feynman in his famous dagrams.

Wallace John Eckert

Nicholas Metropolis and Richard Feynman organized a punched-card solution, proving its effectiveness for physics research and prompting the use of more powerful computers.


David Lasky

Lasky's contribution to the comic book anthology Two–Fisted Science (written by Jim Ottaviani) chronicles the life of physicist Richard Feynman during his time with the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Flexagon

Stone's colleagues Bryant Tuckerman, Richard Feynman, and John Tukey became interested in the idea and formed the Princeton Flexagon Committee.

Interpretations of quantum mechanics

The instrumentalist view is carried by the famous quote of David Mermin, "Shut up and calculate", often misattributed to Richard Feynman.

Nick Dandolos

Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman also met Nick the Greek, according to the autobiographical Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!.

Odor amplifier

Odor amplifier is the plausible, but fictitious, invention of mechanical engineer Thomas A. McMahon that is described in his 1970 novel, Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel, in which it is invented by a character modeled on Richard Feynman.

Project Tuva

Project Tuva is an enhanced video player platform released by Microsoft Research to host the Messenger Lectures series titled The Character of Physical Law given at Cornell University by Richard Feynman in 1964 and recorded by the BBC.

Shaft passer

One of the earliest printed references to these devices was made by Richard Feynman, who was told by a colleague at Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia that the cable-passing version of the device had been used during both world wars on German naval mine mooring cables, to prevent the mines from being caught by British cables swept along the sea bottom.

Sticky bead argument

The argument is often credited to Hermann Bondi, who popularized it, but it was apparently originally proposed anonymously by Richard Feynman.