The Brilliant Mr. Feynman (Update)

What happens when an existentially depressed and recently widowed young physicist from Queens gets a fresh start in California? We follow Richard Feynman out west, to explore his long and extremely fruitful second act. (Part two of a three-part series (freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/richard-feynman) originally published in 2024.)

• SOURCES:

• Seamus Blackley (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Blackley), video game designer and creator of the Xbox.

• Carl Feynman (independent.academia.edu/CarlFeynman), computer scientist and son of Richard Feynman.

• Michelle Feynman (tedxcaltech.com/content/michelle-feynman.html), photographer and daughter of Richard Feynman.

• Ralph Leighton (bookshop.org/search?keywords=Ralph+Leighton), biographer and film producer.

• Charles Mann (penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/60291/charles-c…), science journalist and author.

• John Preskill (preskill.caltech.edu), professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.

• Lisa Randall (physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall), professor of theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University.

• Christopher Sykes (imdb.com/name/nm0843051/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm), documentary filmmaker.

• Stephen Wolfram (stephenwolfram.com), founder and C.E.O. of Wolfram Research; creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language.

• Alan Zorthian (linkedin.com/in/alan-zorthian-0b122675), architect.

• RESOURCES:

• "Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife (themarginalian.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-…)," by Maria Popova (The Marginalian, 2017).

• Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (amzn.to/4bwHhVC), by Lawrence M. Krauss (2011).

• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (amzn.to/3vZ1nI0), by Richard Feynman (1999).

• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (amzn.to/3UtXMf0), by James Gleick (1992).

• "G. Feynman; Landscape Expert, Physicist’s Widow (latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-03-mn-8-st…)," (Los Angeles Times, 1990).

• "Nobel Physicist R. P. Feynman of Caltech Dies (latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-16-mn-4296…)," by Lee Dye (Los Angeles Times, 1988).

• The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-century Physics (amzn.to/48dJ933), by Robert Crease and Charles Mann (1986).

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (bookshop.org/p/books/surely-you-re-joking-mr-f…), by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton (1985).

• Fun to Imagine (imdb.com/title/tt1118155), BBC docuseries (1983).

• "Richard P. Feynman: Nobel Prize Winner (calteches.library.caltech.edu/2398/1/Nobel.pdf)," by Tim Hendrickson, Stuart Galley, and Fred Lamb (Engineering and Science, 1965).

• F.B.I. files on Richard Feynman (muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/f…).

• EXTRAS:

• "The Curious Mr. Feynman (freakonomics.com/podcast/the-curious-mr-feynman)," by Freakonomics Radio (2024).

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