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Richard_Feynman

Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? and books written about him, such as Tuva or Bust! and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick.

Question: What was the name of Feynman's 1959 talk on nanotech?
Answer: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

Question: What was the name of Feynman's lectures he made as an undergraduate?
Answer: The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Question: What was the name of one of his semi-autobiographical books?
Answer: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Question: Feynman wrote many books and gave many ___
Answer: lectures

Question: What book did James Gleck write about Feynman?
Answer: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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Richard Phillips Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in Queens, New York City, the son of Lucille (née Phillips), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman, a sales manager. His family originated from Russia and Poland; both of his parents were Ashkenazi Jews. They were not religious, and by his youth Feynman described himself as an "avowed atheist". He also stated "To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory," and adding "... at thirteen I was not only converted to other religious views, but I also stopped believing that the Jewish people are in any way 'the chosen people'." Later in his life, during a visit to the Jewish Theological Seminary, he encountered the Talmud for the first time, and remarked that he found it a "wonderful book" and "valuable".

Question: What was the date of Feynman's birth?
Answer: May 11, 1918

Question: In what city was Feynman born?
Answer: New York City

Question: Whats is Feynman's religious affiliation?
Answer: atheist

Question: What Jewish affiliation did his parents hold?
Answer: Ashkenazi

Question: What did Feynam think of the Talmud?
Answer: "wonderful book" and "valuable"
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The young Feynman was heavily influenced by his father, who encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking, and who was always ready to teach Feynman something new. From his mother he gained the sense of humor that he had throughout his life. As a child, he had a talent for engineering, maintained an experimental laboratory in his home, and delighted in repairing radios. When he was in grade school, he created a home burglar alarm system while his parents were out for the day running errands.

Question: What personality trait did Feynman acquire from his mother?
Answer: humor

Question: What person influenced Feynman to think deeply?
Answer: father

Question: What electronic instrument did Feynman repair as a child?
Answer: radios

Question: As a grade school child he created an electronic device while his parents were away, what was it?
Answer: home burglar alarm system

Question: What talent did Feynman have, even early in his childhood?
Answer: engineering
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When Richard was five years old, his mother gave birth to a younger brother, but this brother died at four weeks of age. Four years later, Richard gained a sister, Joan, and the family moved to Far Rockaway, Queens. Though separated by nine years, Joan and Richard were close, as they both shared a natural curiosity about the world. Their mother thought that women did not have the cranial capacity to comprehend such things. Despite their mother's disapproval of Joan's desire to study astronomy, Richard encouraged his sister to explore the universe. Joan eventually became an astrophysicist specializing in interactions between the Earth and the solar wind.

Question: What happened to Feyman's younger brother?
Answer: died at four weeks of age

Question: What is Feynman's sister's name?
Answer: Joan

Question: What science displicine did Feyman encourage his sister to study?
Answer: astronomy

Question: Who was the one that pushed Joan to explore the universe?
Answer: Richard

Question: What career did Joan hold?
Answer: astrophysicist
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Feynman attended Far Rockaway High School, a school in Far Rockaway, Queens also attended by fellow Nobel laureates Burton Richter and Baruch Samuel Blumberg. Upon starting high school, Feynman was quickly promoted into a higher math class. An unspecified school-administered IQ test estimated his IQ at 123—high, but "merely respectable" according to biographer James Gleick. When he turned 15, he taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus. In high school he was developing the mathematical intuition behind his Taylor series of mathematical operators. Before entering college, he was experimenting with and deriving mathematical topics such as the half-derivative using his own notation.

Question: What IQ score did Feyman attain in high school?
Answer: 123

Question: What high school did Feynman go to?
Answer: Far Rockaway High School

Question: What did Feyman derive before he went to college?
Answer: half-derivative

Question: Feyman taught himself many math subjects, including Trigonometry at what age?
Answer: 15

Question: What burrough was Feynman's high school in?
Answer: Queens
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He attained a perfect score on the graduate school entrance exams to Princeton University in mathematics and physics—an unprecedented feat—but did rather poorly on the history and English portions. Attendees at Feynman's first seminar included Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, and John von Neumann. He received a PhD from Princeton in 1942; his thesis advisor was John Archibald Wheeler. Feynman's thesis applied the principle of stationary action to problems of quantum mechanics, inspired by a desire to quantize the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory of electrodynamics, laying the groundwork for the "path integral" approach and Feynman diagrams, and was titled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics".

Question: Which two sections of the graduate exam did Feynman excel in?
Answer: mathematics and physics

Question: Which two sections of the graduate exam did Feynman do poorly in?
Answer: history and English

Question: What score did Feyman receive on his math and physics entrance exams?
Answer: perfect score

Question: When did he receive his PhD?
Answer: 1942

Question: What was Feynman's PhD thesis titled?
Answer: The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics
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At Princeton, the physicist Robert R. Wilson encouraged Feynman to participate in the Manhattan Project—the wartime U.S. Army project at Los Alamos developing the atomic bomb. Feynman said he was persuaded to join this effort to build it before Nazi Germany developed their own bomb. He was assigned to Hans Bethe's theoretical division and impressed Bethe enough to be made a group leader. He and Bethe developed the Bethe–Feynman formula for calculating the yield of a fission bomb, which built upon previous work by Robert Serber.

Question: Which weaponry research did Feynman engage in?
Answer: Manhattan Project

Question: Whose division was Feynman assigned to at the Manhattan Project?
Answer: Hans Bethe

Question: What did Feynman produce with the help of Bethe?
Answer: Bethe–Feynman formula

Question: What was the purpose of the Bethe-Feynman formula?
Answer: calculating the yield of a fission bomb

Question: Who had previously worked on fission bomb yields before Feynman?
Answer: Robert Serber
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He immersed himself in work on the project, and was present at the Trinity bomb test. Feynman claimed to be the only person to see the explosion without the very dark glasses or welder's lenses provided, reasoning that it was safe to look through a truck windshield, as it would screen out the harmful ultraviolet radiation. On witnessing the blast, Feynman ducked towards the floor of his truck because of the immense brightness of the explosion, where he saw a temporary "purple splotch" afterimage of the event.

Question: Feynman used this to protect his eyes during the test detonation
Answer: truck windshield

Question: What atomic bomb test did Feynman see?
Answer: Trinity bomb test

Question: What did Feynman see after the atomic test?
Answer: "purple splotch" afterimage

Question: What did Feynman think that the truck windshield would shield him against?
Answer: ultraviolet radiation
Richard_Feynman

Due to the top secret nature of the work, Los Alamos was isolated. In Feynman's own words, "There wasn't anything to do there." Bored, he indulged his curiosity by learning to pick the combination locks on cabinets and desks used to secure papers. Feynman played many jokes on colleagues. In one case he found the combination to a locked filing cabinet by trying the numbers he thought a physicist would use (it proved to be 27–18–28 after the base of natural logarithms, e = 2.71828...), and found that the three filing cabinets where a colleague kept a set of atomic bomb research notes all had the same combination. He left a series of notes in the cabinets as a prank, which initially spooked his colleague, Frederic de Hoffmann, into thinking a spy or saboteur had gained access to atomic bomb secrets. On several occasions, Feynman drove to Albuquerque to see his ailing wife in a car borrowed from Klaus Fuchs, who was later discovered to be a real spy for the Soviets, transporting nuclear secrets in his car to Santa Fe.

Question: Feynman quickly bored of Los Alamos because the work was all kept __?
Answer: top secret

Question: How did Feynman spook a colleague?
Answer: left a series of notes in the cabinets

Question: What did Frederic de Hoffmann think had happened when he found these notes?
Answer: saboteur had gained access to atomic bomb secrets

Question: Feynman visited his wife in which New Mexico city?
Answer: Albuquerque

Question: Feynman borrowed a car from Klaus Fuchs, who was later found to be a what?
Answer: spy for the Soviets
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Feynman alludes to his thoughts on the justification for getting involved in the Manhattan project in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. He felt the possibility of Nazi Germany developing the bomb before the Allies was a compelling reason to help with its development for the U.S. He goes on to say that it was an error on his part not to reconsider the situation once Germany was defeated. In the same publication, Feynman also talks about his worries in the atomic bomb age, feeling for some considerable time that there was a high risk that the bomb would be used again soon, so that it was pointless to build for the future. Later he describes this period as a "depression".

Question: In which book did Feynman talk about the Manhattan project?
Answer: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Question: What was his reasoning in helping make the atomic bomb?
Answer: possibility of Nazi Germany developing the bomb before the Allies

Question: After feeling guilty for helping make an atomic bomb, Feynman went through what mental disorder?
Answer: depression

Question: What did Feynman think of his part in making the bomb after Germany had been defeated?
Answer: error on his part
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Following the completion of his PhD in 1942, Feynman held an appointment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an assistant professor of physics. The appointment was spent on leave for his involvement in the Manhattan project. In 1945, he received a letter from Dean Mark Ingraham of the College of Letters and Science requesting his return to UW to teach in the coming academic year. His appointment was not extended when he did not commit to return. In a talk given several years later at UW, Feynman quipped, "It's great to be back at the only university that ever had the good sense to fire me."

Question: Where did Feynman receive a job after getting his PhD?
Answer: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Question: Feyman received a letter to return to teaching from whom?
Answer: Dean Mark Ingraham

Question: Which year did Feyman complete his PhD?
Answer: 1942

Question: Where did Feynman spend his time during his contract at UW?
Answer: Manhattan project
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After the war, Feynman declined an offer from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, despite the presence there of such distinguished faculty members as Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and John von Neumann. Feynman followed Hans Bethe, instead, to Cornell University, where Feynman taught theoretical physics from 1945 to 1950. During a temporary depression following the destruction of Hiroshima by the bomb produced by the Manhattan Project, he focused on complex physics problems, not for utility, but for self-satisfaction. One of these was analyzing the physics of a twirling, nutating dish as it is moving through the air. His work during this period, which used equations of rotation to express various spinning speeds, proved important to his Nobel Prize–winning work, yet because he felt burned out and had turned his attention to less immediately practical problems, he was surprised by the offers of professorships from other renowned universities.

Question: At which college did Feyman turn down a job?
Answer: Institute for Advanced Study

Question: Where did Feyman accept a job after the war?
Answer: Cornell University

Question: Which colleague did Feynman follow to Cornell?
Answer: Hans Bethe

Question: His work at Cornell helped contribute to his what?
Answer: Nobel Prize–winning work

Question: Why did Feynman go through a depression?
Answer: destruction of Hiroshima by the bomb
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Despite yet another offer from the Institute for Advanced Study, Feynman rejected the Institute on the grounds that there were no teaching duties: Feynman felt that students were a source of inspiration and teaching was a diversion during uncreative spells. Because of this, the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University jointly offered him a package whereby he could teach at the university and also be at the institute.[citation needed] Feynman instead accepted an offer from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)—and as he says in his book Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!—because a desire to live in a mild climate had firmly fixed itself in his mind while he was installing tire chains on his car in the middle of a snowstorm in Ithaca.

Question: The  Institute of Advanced Study and which other university colluded together to get Feynman a position?
Answer: Princeton University

Question: Why did Feynman decide to turn down an offer from the Institute of Advanced Study?
Answer: no teaching duties

Question: Where did Feynman receive much inspiration?
Answer: students

Question: Ultimately Feynman decided to take a job at which college?
Answer: California Institute of Technology

Question: In which city did Feynman find himself affixing tire chains?
Answer: Ithaca
Richard_Feynman

Feynman has been called the "Great Explainer". He gained a reputation for taking great care when giving explanations to his students and for making it a moral duty to make the topic accessible. His guiding principle was that, if a topic could not be explained in a freshman lecture, it was not yet fully understood. Feynman gained great pleasure from coming up with such a "freshman-level" explanation, for example, of the connection between spin and statistics. What he said was that groups of particles with spin ½ "repel", whereas groups with integer spin "clump". This was a brilliantly simplified way of demonstrating how Fermi–Dirac statistics and Bose–Einstein statistics evolved as a consequence of studying how fermions and bosons behave under a rotation of 360°. This was also a question he pondered in his more advanced lectures, and to which he demonstrated the solution in the 1986 Dirac memorial lecture. In the same lecture, he further explained that antiparticles must exist, for if particles had only positive energies, they would not be restricted to a so-called "light cone".

Question: Which nickname did Feynman receive?
Answer: Great Explainer

Question: Feynman believed that if a topic was not easily accessible to freshmen than it was not yet what?
Answer: fully understood

Question: In a lecture, Feynman said that what had to exist?
Answer: antiparticles

Question: Antiparticles had to exist because if particles only were of positive energy, they would not be in what?
Answer: light cone
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He also developed Feynman diagrams, a bookkeeping device that helps in conceptualizing and calculating interactions between particles in spacetime, including the interactions between electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons. This device allowed him, and later others, to approach time reversibility and other fundamental processes. Feynman's mental picture for these diagrams started with the hard sphere approximation, and the interactions could be thought of as collisions at first. It was not until decades later that physicists thought of analyzing the nodes of the Feynman diagrams more closely. Feynman painted Feynman diagrams on the exterior of his van.

Question: What did Feynman produce that help in understanding calculations between particles in space and time?
Answer: Feynman diagrams

Question: What is the name of the antimatter counterpart of electrons?
Answer: positrons

Question: Where did Feynman paint his diagrams?
Answer: his van

Question: What did Feynman digrams allow him and others to do?
Answer: approach time reversibility and other fundamental processes
Richard_Feynman

From his diagrams of a small number of particles interacting in spacetime, Feynman could then model all of physics in terms of the spins of those particles and the range of coupling of the fundamental forces. Feynman attempted an explanation of the strong interactions governing nucleons scattering called the parton model. The parton model emerged as a complement to the quark model developed by his Caltech colleague Murray Gell-Mann. The relationship between the two models was murky; Gell-Mann referred to Feynman's partons derisively as "put-ons". In the mid-1960s, physicists believed that quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers, not real particles, as the statistics of the Omega-minus particle, if it were interpreted as three identical strange quarks bound together, seemed impossible if quarks were real. The Stanford linear accelerator deep inelastic scattering experiments of the late 1960s showed, analogously to Ernest Rutherford's experiment of scattering alpha particles on gold nuclei in 1911, that nucleons (protons and neutrons) contained point-like particles that scattered electrons. It was natural to identify these with quarks, but Feynman's parton model attempted to interpret the experimental data in a way that did not introduce additional hypotheses. For example, the data showed that some 45% of the energy momentum was carried by electrically-neutral particles in the nucleon. These electrically-neutral particles are now seen to be the gluons that carry the forces between the quarks and carry also the three-valued color quantum number that solves the Omega-minus problem. Feynman did not dispute the quark model; for example, when the fifth quark was discovered in 1977, Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a sixth quark, which was discovered in the decade after his death.

Question: What model did Murray Gell-Mann develop?
Answer: quark model

Question: What model did Feynman produce to complement the quark model?
Answer: parton model

Question: Quarks were thought of as what in the 1960s?
Answer: not real particles

Question: Which scientist experimented with blasting alpha particles at the nuclei of gold?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Question: After the fifth quark was discovered, Feynman said what had to also exist?
Answer: sixth quark
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Feynman was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1965. At this time in the early 1960s, Feynman exhausted himself by working on multiple major projects at the same time, including a request, while at Caltech, to "spruce up" the teaching of undergraduates. After three years devoted to the task, he produced a series of lectures that eventually became The Feynman Lectures on Physics. He wanted a picture of a drumhead sprinkled with powder to show the modes of vibration at the beginning of the book. Concerned over the connections to drugs and rock and roll that could be made from the image, the publishers changed the cover to plain red, though they included a picture of him playing drums in the foreword. The Feynman Lectures on Physics occupied two physicists, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, as part-time co-authors for several years. Even though the books were not adopted by most universities as textbooks, they continue to sell well because they provide a deep understanding of physics. Many of his lectures and miscellaneous talks were turned into other books, including The Character of Physical Law, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Statistical Mechanics, Lectures on Gravitation, and the Feynman Lectures on Computation.

Question: Which society was Feynman elected to?
Answer: Royal Society

Question: After 3 years at Caltech what lectures did Feynman produce?
Answer: The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Question: Why did publisher change the cover picture on Feynman's book?
Answer: connections to drugs and rock and roll

Question: In his book, Feynman was shown playing what instrument?
Answer: drums

Question: What was the name of the book Feynman wrote over light and matter?
Answer: The Character of Physical Law, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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In 1974, Feynman delivered the Caltech commencement address on the topic of cargo cult science, which has the semblance of science, but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" on the part of the scientist. He instructed the graduating class that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that."

Question: In which year did Feynman orate the Caltech commencement speech?
Answer: 1974

Question: Which topic did Feynman's commencement speech at Caltech center around?
Answer: cargo cult science

Question: What did Feyman tell the class that they must not do to themselves?
Answer: fool yourself

Question: What is cargo cult science?
Answer: pseudoscience
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In the late 1980s, according to "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine", Feynman played a crucial role in developing the first massively parallel computer, and in finding innovative uses for it in numerical computations, in building neural networks, as well as physical simulations using cellular automata (such as turbulent fluid flow), working with Stephen Wolfram at Caltech. His son Carl also played a role in the development of the original Connection Machine engineering; Feynman influencing the interconnects while his son worked on the software.

Question: What did Feynman help develop in the 1980s?
Answer: parallel computer

Question: Who did Feynman work with on computers at Caltech?
Answer: Stephen Wolfram

Question: Who else worked with Feynman on developing computers?
Answer: His son Carl

Question: What specifically did his son work on?
Answer: software

Question: What did Feyman do while his son worked on software?
Answer: influencing the interconnects