Genius (89 page)

422 H
OW ARE THESE MATERIALS, THIS PUTTY AND THE RUBBER
: Ibid., 347.

423 I
F THIS MATERIAL WEREN’T RESILIENT
: Ibid., 345.

423 H
E HAD MADE AN OFFICIAL REQUEST
:
WDY,
146.

423 F
EYNMAN IS BECOMING A REAL PAIN
: David Sanger, personal communication.

424 Y
OU DIDN’T
, I
ASSUME
:
Report,
IV, 380–82.

424 M
ULLOY, UNDER FURTHER QUESTIONING
: “NASA Acknowledges Cold Affects Boosters Seals,” Philip Boffey,
New York Times,
12 February 1986, 1.

424 T
HE PUBLIC SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES
: Dyson 1992, 284.

425
TO EXAGGERATE
: to exaggerate how economical:
WDY,
214.

425
ONE OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE
:
Report,
I, 1.

426 I
T WAS A GREAT BIG WORLD
: WDY, 158.

426 K
UTYNA TOLD HIM HE WAS THE ONLY
: Kutyna, interview;
WDY,
156.

426 I
N BETWEEN, HE MADE REPEATED VISITS
: F-L.

426 I
AM DETERMINED TO
D
O THE JOB
: Feynman to Gweneth Feynman, 12 February 1986, quoted in WDY, 157.

426 T
HE
C
OMMISSION STRONGLY RECOMMENDS
: WDY, 200–201.

427
HISTORY OF
O-
RING PROBLEMS HAD BEEN REPORTED
: E.g.
Report,
I, Appendix H; Graham, interview.

427 O
VERALL HE ESTIMATED
: Feynman 1986, F-2. 427
A KIND OF
R
USSIAN ROULETTE
:
Report,
I, 148.

427 I
T HAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD
: Ibid., IV, 817.

428 A
TEAM OF STATISTICIANS
: Dalai et al. 1989; Bruce Hoadley, telephone interview.

428 F
EYNMAN DISCOVERED THAT SOME ENGINEERS
: WDY, 182–83.

428 F
OR A SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY
: Feynman 1986, F-5.

EPILOGUE

429
RATHER THAN EMBARRASS THEM
:
Lectures,
I-16–1.

430 D
ID THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE IMPOSE
:
Lectures,
I-6–10.

430 T
HE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE SIGNALED
: Hawking 1987, 55.

430 I
T IS USUALLY THOUGHT THAT THIS INDETERMINACY
:
Lectures,
I-38–9.

430 I
F WATER FALLS OVER A DAM
: Ibid.

431 F
IFTY YEARS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS
: Cahn and Goldhaber 1989, ix.

432
A CONTRIVED INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE
: Schwartz 1992, 173.

432 P
EOPLE SAY TO ME
, “A
RE YOU LOOKING
: F-Sy.

432 W
E MAY NOW BE NEAR THE END
: Hawking 1987, 156.

432 I’
VE HAD A LIFETIME OF THAT
: Interview conducted by P. C. W. Davies, transcript, CIT.

433 Y
OUR CAREER SPANS THE PERIOD
: Interview conducted by Robert Crease, 22 February 1985; transcript, courtesy of Crease. Robert Crease to Feynman, 18 July 1985, CIT.

434 I
SEE YOU’VE MET
D
ICK
: Robert Crease to Feynman, 18 July 1985, CIT.

435 F
ORGET ALL THAT “LOCAL MINIMA” STUFF
: Hillis 1989, 82.

435 A
ND HE BEGAN TO PRODUCE MAVERICK RESEARCH
: Feynman 1982; Feynman 1984. 435
THE PHYSICAL REVIEW OF THE BLIND MEN
:
Lectures,
II-20–11.

435 W
E ARE ALL REDUCTIONISTS TODAY
: Weinberg 1987a, 66; Weinberg, personal communication.

436
THE INFINITE VARIETY AND NOVELTY
:
Lectures,
II-41–12.

436 H
E MAY ALSO BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE
: Einstein and Infeld 1938, 31.

436
ONE OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
: Mermin 1985, 47; Feynman 1982, 471.

437 I
HAVE DECIDED IT IS NOT A VERY GOOD IDEA
: Feynman to Lee Dye, 23 September

1987, CIT.

437 I
T IS REALLY LIKE THE SHAPE
: Ulam 1976, xi.

437 I’
M GOING TO DIE
: Michelle Feynman, interview.

437 H
E WAS WATCHED AND GUARDED
: Joan Feynman, Gweneth Feynman, and Frances Lewine, interviews.

438
TAUGHT PEOPLE MOST OF THE GOOD STUFF
: Hillis 1989, 83.

438 Y
OU SEE, ONE THING IS
, I
CAN LIVE
: F-Sy.

438 I’
D HATE TO DIE TWICE
: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

A FEYNMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

Because almost all Feynman’s work originated with the spoken word, and because its publication took so many shapes, formal and informal, no final bibliography will ever be compiled. Neither Feynman nor the Caltech libraries maintained more than a partial listing. Some lectures were published repeatedly, in journals and collections, in versions that vary slightly or not at all. Others exist only in the form of Feynman’s notes before the fact, a student’s handwritten notes after the fact, a university preprint, a typed transcript, an edited or unedited conference proceeding, a file on a computer disk, or a video- or audiotape. Some manuscripts are virtually intact and publishable; others are no more than notes on a placemat; and in between is an unbroken continuum.

The following is a guide to work of Feynman’s that can be construed as published in any form; major unpublished work; and other important manuscripts and papers cited in this book.

1933–34. “The Calculus: Scribble-In Book.” Notebook. AIP.

1935. “The Calculus of Finite Differences.”
The f(x)
. Far Rockaway High School Mathematics Club. January, 1. CIT

Feynman and Welton, T. A. 1936–37. Notebook. AIP.

1939
a
. “Forces and Stresses in Molecules.” Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of bachelor of science in physics. AIP.

1939
b
. “Forces in Molecules.”
Physical
Review
56:340.

Vallarta, M. S., and Feynman. 1939. “The Scattering of Cosmic Rays by the Stars of a Galaxy.”
Physical Review
55:506.

1940. “Notebook of Things I Don’t Know About.” Notebook. CIT.

1941
d
. “The Interaction Theory of Radiation.” Typescript. AIP.

1941
b
. “Particles Interacting thru an Intermediate Oscillator.” Draft pages toward Ph.D. thesis. PERS.

Feynman and Wheeler, John Archibald. 1941. “Reaction of the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiative Damping. Abstract.”
Physical Review
59: 682.

1942
a
. Ph.D. thesis manuscript. CIT.

1942
b
. “The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics.” Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University.

1942
c
.
Effects of Space Charge; Use of Sine Waves
. Isotron Report no. 2, 5 January. SMY.

1942
d
.
Kinematics of the Separator.
Isotron Report no. 7, 14 April. SMY.

1942
e
.
The Design of the Buncher and Analyzer
. Isotron Report no. 17, 26 August. SMY.

1942
f. A Note on the Cascade Operation of Isotrons
. Isotron Report no. 20, 8 September. SMY.

Wheeler, John Archibald, and Feynman. 1942. “Action at a Distance in Classical Physics: Reaction of the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiative Damping.” Typescript. AIP.

1943
d
.
The Operation of Isotrons in Cascade
. Isotron Report no. 29, 27 January. SMY.

1943
b
.
Factors Which Influence the Separation
. Isotron Report no. 35, 22 February. SMY.

1944. “Theoretical Department.” Unsigned draft typescript for Smyth 1945. LANL.

Ashkin, J.; Ehrlich, R.; and Feynman. 1944. “First Report on the Hydride.” Typescript, 31 January. LANL.

1945. “A New Approximate Method for Rapid Calculation of Critical Amounts of X.” Typescript. LANL.

Wheeler, John Archibald, and Feynman. 1945. “Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation.”
Reviews
of Modern Physics
17:157.

1946
a
.
Amplifier Response
. Los Alamos Reports, LA-593. LANL.

1946
b
.
A Theorem and Its Application to Finite Tampers
. Los Alamos Reports, LA- 608, Series B. LANL.

Feynman and Bethe, Hans A. 1946. Abstract for New York Meeting of the American Physical Society, 19–21 September. Typescript. CIT.

1947. “Theory of Positrons.” Notes. CIT.

Feynman and Welton, T. A. 1947. The
Calculation of Critical Masses Including the Effects of the Distribution of Neutron Energies
. Los Alamos Reports, Series B, LA-524. LANL.

1948
a
. “Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.”
Reviews of Modern Physics
20:367.

1948
b
. “A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics,”
Physical
Review
74:939.

1948
c
. “Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics.”
Physical Review
74: 1430.

1948
d
. “Pocono Conference.”
Physics Today
, June, 8.

1948
e
. “Pocono Conference.” Typescript. LOC.

1948
f
. Paper T5: “Theory of Positrons.” Talk prepared for American Physical Society meeting in January 1949. CIT.

1949
a
. “The Theory of Positrons.”
Physical Review
76:749.

1949
b
. “Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics.”
Physical
Review 76:769.

Feynman; Metropolis, Nicholas; and Teller, Edward. 1949. “Equations of State of Elements Based on the Generalized Fermi-Thomas Theory.”
Physical
Review
75:1561.

Wheeler, John Archibald, and Feynman. 1949. “Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of Direct Interparticle Action.”
Reviews of Modern Physics
21:425.

1950. “Mathematical Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic Interaction.”
Physical Review
80:440.

1951
a
. “An Operator Calculus Having Applications in Quantum Electrodynamics.”
Physical Review
84:108.

1951
b
. “The Concept of Probability in Quantum Mechanics.” Second Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, University of California, Berkeley, 1950:533.

Brown, Laurie M., and Feynman. 1952. “Radiative Corrections to Compton Scattering.”
Physical Review
85:231.

Lopes, J. Leite, and Feynman. 1952. “On the Pseudoscalar Meson Theory of the Deuteron.” Symposium on New Research Techniques in Physics, 15–29 July.

1953
a
. “The Lambda Transition in Liquid Helium.”
Physical Review
90:1116.

1953
b
. “Atomic Theory of Lambda Transition in Helium.”
Physical Review
91:1291.

1953
c
. “Atomic Theory of Liquid Helium near Absolute Zero.”
Physical Review
91:1301.

1953
d
. “Atomic Theory of Liquid Helium.” Talk at the Theoretical Physics Conference in Tokyo, September 1953. In
Notas de Físicas
12.

1954
a
. “Atomic Theory of the Two-Fluid Model of Liquid Helium.”
Physical Review
94:262.

1954
b
. “The Present Situation in Fundamental Theoretical Physics.”
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
26:51.

Feynman; Baranger, Michel; and Bethe, Hans A. 1954. “Relativistic Correction to the Lamb Shift.”
Physical Review
92:482.

Feynman and Speisman, G. 1954. “Proton-Neutron Mass Difference.”
Physical Review
94:50.

1955
a
. “Slow Electrons in a Polar Crystal.”
Physical Review
97:660.

1955
b
. “Application of Quantum Mechanics to Liquid Helium.” In
Progress in Low Temperature Physics
. Edited by C. J. Goiter. Amsterdam: North Holland.

1955
c
. “The Value of Science.” Transcript of address at the autumn 1955 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. In
Engineering and Science
, June, 3.

Feynman and Cohen, Michael. 1955. “The Character of the Roton State in Liquid Helium.”
Progress in Theoretical Physics
14:261.

1956
a
. “The Relation of Science and Religion.”
Engineering and Science
, June, 20.

1956
b
. “Dr. Feynman Replies to Mr. Sohler’s ‘New Hypothesis.’”
Engineering and Science
, October, 52.

Feynman and Cohen, Michael. 1956. “Energy Spectrum of the Excitations in Liquid Helium.”
Physical Review
102:1189.

Feynman; de Hoffmann, Frederic; and Serber, Robert. 1956. “Dispersion of the Neutron Emission in U-235 Fission.”
Journal of Nuclear Energy
3:64.

1957
a
. “Superfluidity and Superconductivity.”
Reviews of Modern Physics
29:205.

1957
b
. “Alternative to the Two-Component Neutrino Theory.” Remarks at the Seventh Annual Rochester Conference on High-Energy Physics, 15–19 April. In Ascoli et al. 1957, IX-42.

1957
c
. “The Role of Science in the World Today.”
Proceedings of the Institute of World Affairs
33:17.