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February 1989

Volume 42, Issue 2

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Special Issue: Richard Feynman

Gloria B. Lubkin
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The Young Feynman

John Archibald Wheeler
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How a 21‐year‐old grad student met this 28‐year‐old assistant prof and went on to amaze the kids, wreak havoc in the lab and invent a new way to understand quantum mechanics.

Feynman at Cornell

Freeman J. Dyson
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Personal letters written about Feynman when he was a young professor at Cornell recount his adventures with friends and paint a picture of a uniquely brilliant physicist.

A Path to Quantum Electrodynamics

Julian Schwinger
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A youthful fascination with electrodynamics drove Feynman through a succession of ideas until, with a prod by experiment, he reached an intuitive view of quantum electrodynamics.

Dick Feynman—The Guy in the Office Down the Hall

Murray Gell‐Mann
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A brilliant, vital and amusing neighbor, Feynman was a stimulating (if sometimes exasperating) partner in discussions of profound issues. His sum‐over‐paths method may turn out to be not just useful, but fundamental.

Feynman and Partons

James D. Bjorken
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‘I am more sure of the conclusions [of the parton model] than of any single argument which suggested them to me for they have an internal consistency which surprises me and exceeds the consistency of my deductive arguments which hinted at their existence.’

Richard Feynman and Condensed Matter Physics

David Pines
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During the mid‐1950s Feynman's interests concentrated on problems in condensed matter, including liquid helium, rotons, polarons and superconductivity.

Richard P. Feynman, Teacher

David L. Goodstein
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His achievement as a teacher—and as an inspiration and model for other teachers—was based on nothing less than seeing all of physics with fresh new eyes.

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

W. Daniel Hillis
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In his last years, Feynman helped build an innovative computer. He had great fun with computers. Half the fun was explaining things to anyone who would listen.

A Lowbrow's View of Feynman

Valentine L. Telegdi
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Feynman's theoretical concepts opened up research opportunities for experimenters, and his approach to physics dignified the role played by their work.

Richard Feynman, Artist

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Feynman's Office; the Last Blackboards

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Did Einstein Espouse his Spouse's Ideas?

Evan Harris Walker and John Stachel
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Those Magnetic Feynman Tapes

Philip Nelson and Sidney Coleman
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Feynman's Dining Hall Dynamics

Benjamin Fong Chao
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Inflation Reputation Reparation

S. W. Hawking
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The Different Circles of Solar Cycle Research

Jean‐Claude Pecker, Elizabeth Ribes, and Herschel B. Snodgrass
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MacArthur Grants: Too Many Strings Attached

Robert J. Yaes
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Nobel Chemists Shed Light on Key Structure in Photosynthesis

Barbara Goss Levi
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The Philosophical Writings of Neils Bohr

Niels Bohr and David Mermin, Reviewer
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“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman and Sidney Drell, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Changing Times: Sakharov in the US on Human Rights and Arms Control

Irwin Goodwin
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Celebrating Sakharov

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DOE Picks Texas for ‘Gippertron’ Amid Political and Managerial Collisions

Irwin Goodwin
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APS‐AIP Survey of Faculties Finds Shortages in Two Physics Subfields

William Sweet
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US and Soviet Academies Reach Global Ecology Agreement

William Sweet
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In Brief

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