Surely you're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Carroll, John Bissell (1996). Sternberg, Robert J.; Ben-Zeev, Talia (eds.). The Nature of Mathematical Thinking. Mahwah, New Jersey: L. Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-0-8058-1799-7. OCLC 34513302. At this juncture, in early 1943, Robert Oppenheimer was establishing the Los Alamos Laboratory, a secret laboratory on a mesa in New Mexico where atomic bombs would be designed and built. An offer was made to the Princeton team to be redeployed there. "Like a bunch of professional soldiers," Wilson later recalled, "we signed up, en masse, to go to Los Alamos." [53] Like many other young physicists, Feynman soon fell under the spell of the charismatic Oppenheimer, who telephoned Feynman long distance from Chicago to inform him that he had found a Presbyterian sanatorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Arline. They were among the first to depart for New Mexico, leaving on a train on March 28, 1943. The railroad supplied Arline with a wheelchair, and Feynman paid extra for a private room for her. There they spent their wedding anniversary. [54] Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew (2005) [1970]. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition (2nded.). Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-8053-9045-6. Includes Feynman's Tips on Physics (with Michael Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton), which includes four previously unreleased lectures on problem solving, exercises by Robert Leighton and Rochus Vogt, and a historical essay by Matthew Sands. Three volumes; originally published as separate volumes in 1964 and 1966. Feynman, Richard P. (1985b). QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02417-0.

Rasmussen, Cecilia (June 5, 2005). "History Exhumed Via Computer Chip". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 10, 2023.Murray Gell-Mann was upset by Feynman's account in the book of the weak interaction work, and threatened to sue, resulting in a correction being inserted in later editions. [4] Feynman, Richard P. (1968) [1966]. "What is Science?" (PDF). The Physics Teacher. 7 (6): 313–320. Bibcode: 1969PhTea...7..313F. doi: 10.1119/1.2351388 . Retrieved June 10, 2023. Lecture presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, 1966 in New York City.

Feynman, Richard P. (1942). Laurie M. Brown (ed.). The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics. PhD Dissertation, Princeton University. World Scientific (with title "Feynman's Thesis: a New Approach to Quantum Theory") (published 2005). ISBN 978-981-256-380-4. Pines, David (1989). "Richard Feynman and Condensed Matter Physics". Physics Today. 42 (2): 61. Bibcode: 1989PhT....42b..61P. doi: 10.1063/1.881194. Miller, Anthony (March 13, 2013). "Big Bang Theory: Sheldon's Top 5 Moments". Los Angeles Magazine . Retrieved June 10, 2023.Feynman, Richard P. (1987). Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34000-4. Other stories cover more serious material, including his work on the Manhattan Project (during which his first wife Arline Greenbaum died of tuberculosis) and his critique of the science education system in Brazil. The section "Monster Minds" describes his slightly nervous presentation of his graduate work on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory in front of Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Henry Norris Russell, John von Neumann, and other major scientists of the time. 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, [9] maintained an experimental laboratory in his home, and delighted in repairing radios. This radio repairing was probably the first job Feynman had, and during this time he showed early signs of an aptitude for his later career in theoretical physics, when he would analyze the issues theoretically and arrive at the solutions. [10] When he was in grade school, he created a home burglar alarm system while his parents were out for the day running errands. [11]

Near the end of his life, Feynman attempted to visit the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) in the Soviet Union, a dream thwarted by Cold War bureaucratic issues. The letter from the Soviet government authorizing the trip was not received until the day after he died. His daughter Michelle later made the journey. [195] Oral history interview transcript with Richard Feynman on 4 February 1973, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session V The Messenger Lectures, given at Cornell in 1964, in which he explains basic topics in physics; [218] adapted into the book The Character of Physical Law Van Kortryk, T. (May 2017). "The doctoral students of Richard Feynman". Physics Today. arXiv: 1801.04574. doi: 10.1063/PT.5.9100. S2CID 119088526.Textbooks and lecture notes [ edit ] The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition (2nd edition, 2005) Feynman, Richard P. (1987). Leighton, Ralph (ed.). "Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington". Engineering and Science. Caltech. 51 (1): 6–22. ISSN 0013-7812.

Feynman, Richard P. (1988a). Leighton, Ralph (ed.). What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02659-0.

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Not everyone can get away with this all the time, so if you are able to make it into a position in life where you can, do. Feynman spends a whole chapter talking about Japan and how wonderful the country is, but not once does he mention the bomb, ask about it, tells you about being asked about it, or make any visit to Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Left wondering what his thoughts were on the topic. Teach What You Know Feynman, Richard P. (1949). "Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamic". Physical Review. 76 (6): 769–789. Bibcode: 1949PhRv...76..769F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.76.769.