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The move to Princeton was the beginning of an intense period for Feynman. He succeeded in finding a completely new way of looking at quantum mechanics. He also took part in the Manhattan project, the USA’s attempt to beat Germany to the construction of a nuclear bomb during the Second World War. And finally he had to cope with a private tragedy, because Arline, his childhood sweetheart and later wife, died of tuberculosis shortly before the end of the war.
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Quoted in Dennis Overbye: John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term Black Hole, Is Dead at 96, New York Times (April 14, 2008).
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James Clerk Maxwell: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Clarendon Press, 1873.
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See Feynman Lectures, Volume II, Chap. 28.
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The exact formula can be found in the Feynman Lectures Volume II Chap. 28-4 Eq. 28.9.
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See What is Science? http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html (taken from The Physics Teacher, 1969).
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The letter and Einstein’s comments on it can be found on Wikipedia under the heading Einstein–Szilárd letter.
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If you want to calculate it yourself, see, e.g., the website http://www.wolframalpha.com/.
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Resag, J. (2018). Princeton, Path Integrals, and the Manhattan Project. In: Feynman and His Physics. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96836-0_2
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