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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Feynman Recommended...

"...He is by all odds the most brilliant young physicist here, and everyone knows this..."

An old letter, recently disclosed, from the late Robert Oppenheimer highly recommending a young Richard Feynman for a position in the physics dept. of UC Berkeley back in 1943 (Feynman opted to go elsewhere):

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/he-is-second-dirac-only-this-time-human.html

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