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“Richard Feynman was hospitalized two weeks ago in connection with renal insufficiency developed through cancer. Last Thursday he took a clear-headed decision to stop the dialysis and die. He died this morning.” This telegram was sent by Kip Thorne, a professor at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to his friend B. V. Braginskii, a professor at Moscow State University. That was how we got to know about the demise (on February 15, 1988) of the remarkable physicist and teacher of physicists Richard Feynman.
The note was written on the request of the editorial board of the journal Priroda as a kind of foreword to an abridged translation of Feynman’s story “Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington” (Priroda No. 7, 90, 1988).
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Ginzburg, V.L. (2001). About Richard Feynman — a Remarkable Physicist and a Wonderful Man. In: The Physics of a Lifetime. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04455-1_27
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