In early 1943, Edwin McMillan, assisting Robert Oppenheimer in setting up the weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, in physics under the tutelage of Eugene Wigner. Wheeler, meanwhile, in early 1942 went to work on the bomb project at the Met LabĪt the University of Chicago, and Feynman completed his Ph.D. He began theoretical work on the separation of uranium-235. The Germans had Hitler and the possibility of developing an atomic bomb was obvious,Īnd the possibility that they would develop it before we did was very much of a fright." Accepting the assignment, He "began to pace the floor and think about the thing. But after returning to his thesis "for about three minutes," Reaction was to decline since he was in the final stages of his thesis. While at Princeton, Feynman was recruited in 1941 to work on uranium research leading to a possible atomic bomb. It was not just a facility at mathematics… Feynman seemed to possess a frightening ease with the substanceīehind the equations, like Einstein at the same age, like the Soviet physicist Lev Landau - but few others." At twenty-three… there was no physicist on earth who could match his exuberant command over the native The biographer James Gleick notes that at Princeton Feynman was He gave his first seminar at Princeton toĪn audience that included Albert Einstein, In 1939, he began graduate studies at Princeton University, studying under John Wheeler. Initially, he studied mathematics, but,Ĭoncerned about the abstraction and lack of application, briefly tried electrical engineering and then went into physics. Richard Feynman has been described as "the best mind since Einstein." He was born on March 11, 1918, in New York City,Īnd did his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. RICHARD FEYNMAN (Physicist, Los Alamos Theoretical Division) People > Scientists Manhattan Project: People > Scientists > RICHARD FEYNMAN
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