Nassau Point, Long Island, NY, 1939
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Abstract/Description: Portrait of Richard Feynman playing a conga drum.
Date Created: December 1956
Credit Line: Photo by Tom Harvey, Copyright California Institute of Technology
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For a short video of Feynman’s playing, please visit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWabhnt91Uc&t=21s
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.
Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, he was ranked the seventh-greatest physicist of all time.
He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Along with his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, and books written about him such as Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton and the biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
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Satyendra Nath Bose playing the Esraj, an Indian stringed instrument, like violin. He used to perform for his students and colleagues in Calcutta and Dhaka universities.
Bose (1894 – 1974) was an Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1954 by the Government of India.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose
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Abstract/Description: Henry Hurwitz outdoors standing at Harvard with a Yo-Yo
Date Created: 1941
Credit Line: Photograph by Samuel Goudsmit, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Goudsmit Collection
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Henry Hurwitz Jr. (1918 – 1992), was a research physicist at General Electric Company who pioneered the theory and design of nuclear power plants and helped engineer the reactor for the Seawolf nuclear submarine.
He worked on the bomb at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico from 1943 to 1946, then helped design power plants and set safety standards that were adopted worldwide. Fortune magazine in 1954 called him "probably the most brilliant student of nuclear reactor theory in industry."
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Renato Dulbecco (February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance…
As a young boy during the 1920’s, Renato Dulbecco's mother encouraged him to learn piano. She loved opera and hoped he could play operas for her, which after many piano lessons he did. After discovering the radio, he built a radio to play operas for his mother. She was very pleased as his radio also made it possible to pick up stations from all over the world.
However, Renato grew up neither to be a musician or an engineer. Instead, he became a virologist who discovered a link between genetic mutations and cancer. His discovery paved the way to modern cancer research.
When he retired at the age of 92, he spent a lot of time playing in his home in La Jolla, California.
You can learn more about Dulbecco’s life here:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/dulbecco/biograph...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1203513109
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