A brief story about great man and all-sided scientist — Richard Feynman!
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| <h1 align="center">Richard Phillips Feynman</h1> | |
| <h2 align="center"><i>"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"</i></h2> | |
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| <div align="center"><img class="img-responsive" id="quote" src="http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-study-hard-what-interests-you-the-most-in-the-most-undisciplined-irreverent-and-original-richard-p-feynman-34-36-10.jpg" alt="Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard P. Feynman"> | |
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| <h4 class="text-center" id="ht">Date history of Great Man who wondered a whole life:</h4> | |
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| <li><strong>1918 May 11th</strong> — Born in New York City.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1939</strong> — Received Bachelor's Degree from MIT and was named a Putnam Fellow.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1941</strong> — Feynman marries highschool sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1942</strong> — Received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Princeton University.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1942 to 1945</strong> — Worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge as the leader of the theoretical division.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1945 to 1950</strong> — Followed Hans Bethe to Cornell University where he joined the physics department and taught theoretical physics.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1950</strong> — Joined the faculty in the physics department at Caltech. Feynman conducted his best work here in areas such as quantum electrodynamics and the physics of superfluidity.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1952 June 28th</strong> — Feynman remarries Mary Louise Bell, a platinum blonde from Neodesha, Kansas. They had met in a cafeteria in Cornell, where she had studied the history of Mexican art and textiles. She later followed him to Caltech, where he gave a lecture.<br>While he was in Brazil, she had taught classes on the history of furniture and interiors at Michigan State University. He proposed to her by mail from Rio de Janeiro, and they married in Boise, Idaho, on June 28, 1952, shortly after he returned.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1954</strong> — Received The Albert Einstein Award.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1956</strong> — They separated on May 20, 1956. An interlocutory decree of divorce was entered on June 19, 1956, on the grounds of "extreme cruelty". The divorce became final on May 5, 1958.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1959 to 1960</strong> — On the beach on Lake Geneva, he met Gweneth Howarth, who was from Ripponden, Yorkshire, and working in Switzerland as an au pair. Feynman's love life had been turbulent since his divorce; his previous girlfriend had walked off with his Albert Einstein Award medal and, on the advice of an earlier girlfriend, had feigned pregnancy and blackmailed him into paying for an abortion, then used the money to buy furniture.<br>When Feynman found that Howarth was being paid only $25 a month, he offered her $20 a week to be his live-in maid. That this sort of behavior was illegal was not overlooked; Feynman had a friend, Matthew Sands, act as her sponsor. Howarth pointed out that she already had two boyfriends, but eventually decided to take Feynman up on his offer, and arrived in Altadena, California, in June 1959. She made a point of dating other men but Feynman proposed in the spring of 1960. They were married on September 24, 1960, at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. They had a son, Carl, in 1962, and adopted a daughter, Michelle, in 1968.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1962</strong> — Received The E. O. Lawrence Award.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1965 December 10th</strong> — Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for work in quantum electrodynamics, along with colleagues Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1972</strong> — Received The Oersted Medal.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1979</strong> — Received The National Medal of Science.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1985</strong> — Publicated book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"</li> | |
| <li><strong>1986 January 28th</strong> — Feynman played an important role on the Presidential Rogers Commission, which investigated the Challenger disaster.<br>During a televised hearing, Feynman demonstrated that the material used in the shuttle's O-rings became less resilient in cold weather by compressing a sample of the material in a clamp and immersing it in ice-cold water. The commission ultimately determined that the disaster was caused by the primary O-ring not properly sealing in unusually cold weather at Cape Canaveral.<br>Feynman devoted the latter half of his book What Do You Care What Other People Think? to his experience on the Rogers Commission, straying from his usual convention of brief, light-hearted anecdotes to deliver an extended and sober narrative.</li> | |
| <li><strong>October, 1988</strong> — Publicated book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"</li> | |
| <li><strong>1988 February 15th</strong> — Very painful died in Los Angeles, California.</li> | |
| <li><strong>1996 October 4th</strong> — Released film "Infinity"</li> | |
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| <p>Mr. Feynman's life is not so rich by dates, but rich by details and heart-and-mind-warming moments. For complete understanding of his interesting and fun life, I recommend read the books accurately named as "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?".<br>You won't regret!</p> | |
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| <p>Sources<br></p> | |
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| <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman" target="_blank">Wikipedia (highly recommended to read)</a> | | |
| <a href="http://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/richard-feynman" target="_blank">Atomic Heritage Foundation</a> | | |
| <a href="https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/life-of-richard-feynman" target="_blank">TimeToast</a> | |
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| <p id="cddpk">Coded by <a href="https://vk.com/pkguru" target="_blank">Pavel Kovalyov</p> | |
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