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Richard Feynman - Wikipedia  Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path ... Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a .... for use in an atomic bomb, as part of what would become the Manhattan Project. ...... Feynman, Richard P.; Kleinert, Hagen (1986).
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a ... - Amazon.com  I'm not impressed that he knew how to play bongo drums -- who doesn't? .... on the Manhattan Project, taught at Caltech, and won the Nobel Prize in physics for his .... After the Challenger disaster back in 1986, NASA was called on the carpet to ... and impenetrable explanations of why the cold weather made the O-rings fail...
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feynman-novideos.ppt - EECS at UC Berkeley  Manhattan Project ... Made a breakthrough in the physics of the superfluidity of super cold liquid helium ... Investigated Challenger accident in 1986; Feynman passed away on Feb. ... that they do other things that a few other humans do (like playing bongo drums) is insulting to me. I am human enough to tell you to go to hell.
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Richard Feynman Dead at 69; Leading Theoretical Physicist  Feb 17, 1988 ... ''He's the most creative theoretical physicist of his time and a true genius,'' ... speak Portuguese, play the bongos and decipher Mayan hieroglyphics. ... Dr. Feynman's years with the Manhattan Project brought the brazen young ... Its predictions failed to match experiments, and as physicists tried to make...
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Richard Feynman: Life, the universe and everything - Telegraph  May 9, 2013 ... Richard Feynman, whose diagrams provided the first intuitive way of ... Such talents led to him being recruited to the Manhattan Project in the early Forties. ... his passion for playing the bongos stayed with him for the rest of his life. .... rubber O-ring seals in the shuttle's solid rocket boosters that failed to work...
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Quarks Explained - Atom Ecology  Jul 24, 2014 ... (James Joyce in conversation with Richard Ellmann) ... He theorized that protonssubatomic particles as solid as billiard balls and as stable as...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atom Bomb Pioneer, Dies  Feb 18, 2001 ... In 1954 he was stripped of security clearance by the Atomic Energy ... Fermi award for "his outstanding contributions to theoretical physics ... in 1954, he was officially described as a security risk to his country ... Dr. Oppenheimer headed the Atomic Energy Commission's General ..... Back to today's page.
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) - IMDb  Biography  This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico ... With Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack. ... In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan...
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Donald A. Glaser - Wikipedia  Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926  February 28, 2013) was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics. ... His interest in particle physics led him to work with Nobel laureate Carl David Anderson...
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Life in a Force Field  American Scientist  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. ... but now, 38 years after his death in 1967, Cassidy and other historians are more...
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'Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes' Recounts Shuttle Tragedy 30 ...  Jan 25, 2016 ... On the evening of Jan. 28, 1986, 30 years ago this week, then-Vice President ... John Glenn met with NASA's space shuttle launch team, who hours earlier had lost ... Learning of the meeting, Jennings requested the video. ... Watch the trailer for "Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes" airing on the National...
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This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society  December 1938: Discovery of nuclear fission. ... Trying to explain a puzzling finding made by nuclear chemist Otto Hahn in Berlin, Meitner and Frisch realized...
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Manhattan Project: Einstein's Letter, 1939  Einstein had written to inform Roosevelt that recent research on fission chain ... it as their responsibility to alert Americans to the possibility that German scientists ... as unwelcome evidence that the President did not take the threat of nuclear ... up a committee consisting of civilian and military representatives to study uranium.
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Einstein: Why Did He Wish to Become a Watchmaker? - Science a GoGo ...  Nov 17, 2006 ... I mean if in the future, higher dimensional physics is used to create some awesome weapon, could we blame Ed Witten for not seeing the...
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Edward Teller Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Fermi had proposed that a fission explosion might create conditions close enough to what ..... I have directed the Atomic Energy Commission to continue its work on all forms of ... awards, among which were the Enrico Fermi Award for 1962 (given by .... Often referred to as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb', in 1935 Teller left...
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3. Credit - or blame? - The Why Files  Edward Teller helped invent the hydrogen bomb. ... Los Alamos, said, "Don't ask me who's the father of the H-bomb, because nobody is. ... Michael Anastasio, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said, "The loss of Dr. ... With another Teller brainstorm, fusion boosting, the Bomb could now fit a (huge) cannon.
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J! Archive - Show #1428, aired 1990-11-14  Former German scientist who became director of the Geo. C. Marshall Space Flight ... A device used to detect radiation is named for this German physicist...
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A bomb without Einstein? | Restricted Data  Jun 27, 2014 ... On the other hand, this kind of science-fiction counterfactual can have its ... in the first place, or whether it can be scaled up to industrial or military scales. ... After the fact, once you know about nuclear fission and can measure mass .... wrote a letter, FDR created the Manhattan Project understanding of it that...
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 - American Institute of Physics  1954Declared a security risk by the United States Atomic Energy ... 1963Awarded the Enrico Fermi Award, United States Atomic Energy Commission. This was...
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Complete Program Transcript . The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer ...  Narrator: J. Robert Oppenheimer, the most eminent atomic scientist in America, ... I remembered the line from the Hindu Scripture the Bhagavad-Gita. ... him takes on his multi-armed form and says, Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ...... He was the father of the A-bomb, the government's top advisor on atomic...
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Enrico Fermi - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  During the early years of his career in Rome he occupied himself with ... States, where he was soon appointed Professor of Physics at Columbia University, ... on the Manhattan Project for the development of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb. ... at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel.