Richard Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)

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Nobel laureate in Physics; highly acclaimed Bongo Drum virtuoso, and the one guy honest enough to tell NASA to "live in reality" after discovering the reason for the failure ***coughlive-tv teacher-killing explosioncough*** of the Challenger space shuttle mission.

Mr. Feynman's full report to NASA: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt

Hobbies included quantum electrodynamics, translating Mayan hieroglyphics, and he was a riveting raconteur.

One of his more famous books among readers to dull to grasp physics is entitled "Surely Your'e Joking, Mr. Feynman!".

A wonderful example of his "humble storyteller act", a 40 minute documentary called "The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out" can be viewed free of charge at this link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6586235597476141009&hl=en

BEWARE: Obviuosly a manipulative attempt to score chicks, something he is also renowned for. 3 marriages? Hmmmhm.

Graduate of MIT and Princeton, he helped develop the atomic bomb in Los Alamos and was distracted***coughindenial*** from the mass death potential of the bomb as his first wife was dying of tuberculosis at the time. After his dear wife #1 passed, he occupied his thoughts by cracking every safe at Los Alamos and was the only person to watch the detonation with his bare eyes from inside a pickup cab. He DID NOT develop X-ray eyes, unfortunately for him. http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b345/anaisnun/Richard_Feynman_ID_badge.png

Los Alamos wartime badge photo of a young, safe-cracking Richard Feynman. Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, http://www.lanl.gov/history/wartime/staff.shtml

Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Brooklyn. This made him a Taurus. This may have contributed to why he was so vehement about a crazy notion that learning involved more than just memorizing the book, but actually UNDERSTANDING WHY things worked in real life.

Silly Richard, no child is left behind.

Mr Feynman also held the Albert Einstein Award (1954, Princeton); Einstein Award (Albert Einstein Award College of Medicine); Lawrence Award (1962). He pretended to scoff at awards, including the Almighty Nobel; but this was an obvious and sophomoric attempt at reverse psychology so he would be offered EVEN MORE awards. A selection of his brilliant lectures can be found at: http://www.feynmanlectures.info/

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AnaisNun 09:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)