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Oppenheimer’s Letter of Recommendation for Richard Feynman (1943) | Richard feynman, Letter of recommendation, Physics and mathematics

Let’s journey back to November 1943. The Manhattan project is in its fourth year of operations, and J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos Laboratory is eleven months into its mission of designing and building the first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had in 1942 been headhunted to the project by its Director, Lieutenant General Leslie Groves (1896–1970) on the strength of the recommendation of physicist Arthur Compton (1892–1962). He was 39 years old at the time, and came to the project already a…

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”  --Richard Feynm… | Richard feynman, Richard, Physicist

801 quotes from Richard P. Feynman: 'Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.', 'Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.', and 'You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my…

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