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From Researcher to Teacher and Nobel Prizewinner

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In 1957 a dream had come true for Feynman. He had discovered a new law of nature using his own methods: the left-handed nature of the weak interaction. It had been a pure coincidence that other physicists had also made the same discovery by their own means, as he later found out.

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    See American Journal of Physics 57, 117 (1989).

  2. 2.

    See H. D. Zeh: Feynman’s Interpretation of Quantum Theory.

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Resag, J. (2018). From Researcher to Teacher and Nobel Prizewinner. In: Feynman and His Physics. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96836-0_5

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