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The Making of a Genius: Richard P. Feynman
Christian Forstner In 1965 the Nobel Foundation honored Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics and the consequences for the physics of elementary particles. In contrast to both of his colleagues only Richard Feynman appeared as a genius before the public. In his autobiographies he managed to connect […]
The Most Cruel Death of Cupid and Belinda
August 4, 2012
by Lisa Grossman A pair of star-cross’d lovers orbits Uranus, and when they rush to meet their fate, the duo could leave the cosmic stage littered with more bodies than the final scene of Hamlet. But the deaths of the moons Cupid and Belinda might not bring down the curtain on Uranus’s satellites. Instead they could mark the beginning of […]
August 4, 2012
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