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Feynman’s masterpiece in QED was now accomplished and he was attracted to new, warmer climates – first to Brazil, then to Caltech (the California Institute of Technology) in California, where he would stay for the rest of his life. Feynman married his second wife Mary Louise Bell, but the marriage turned out to be unhappy and lasted only four years.
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See Surely you’re joking in the chapter An Offer You Must Refuse.
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See the chapter O Americano, Outra Vez! in Surely you’re joking.
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You can watch this phenomenon in impressive videos on the Internet, for example at http://www.alfredleitner.com/superfluid.html.
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“Die Arbeit von de Broglie hat großen Eindruck auf mich gemacht. Er hat einen Zipfel des großen Vorhangs gelüftet.” See Einstein’s letter about de Broglie’s doctoral thesis, dated December 16, 1924 and addressed to the French physicist Paul Langevin, quoted in Henning Sievers: Louis de Broglie und die Quantenmechanik, https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9807012.
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From Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Quoted in Alexander Lesov: The Weak Force: From Fermi to Feynman, http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.0058.pdf.
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Resag, J. (2018). California, Super-Cold Helium, and the Weak Interaction. In: Feynman and His Physics. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96836-0_4
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