Unit 4: Scientists and Others

Some of the people discussed in connection with Unit 4 and Feynman:

Hans Bethe: born is Strasbourg in 1906; left Germany in 1933 and wound up at Cornell. Worked at Los Alamos. In 1967, he received a Nobel Prize for his discoveries on the processes that drive the Sun and the stars.

Freeman Dyson: English; born in 1923. Came to Cornell in 1947 and became a professor at Princeton in the '50s. (See his homepage here and another interesting site here.)

Joan Feynman: Richard Feynman's sister; astrophysicist; retired from JPL in 2003.

Werner Heisenberg: The German Nobel laureate and founder of Quantum Mechanics. Famous for his "Uncertainty Principle". He was also the head of the German nuclear energy program during WWII. (link here to Copenhagen Interpretation w/ Bohr)

Marvin Minsky: A pioneer in Artificial Inteligence; MIT (Click here for web link.)

Robert Oppenheimer: The physicist who was director of the Manhattan Project

John von Neumann: Born in Hungary; worked on Manhatten Project and went on to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

John Wheeler: Studied with Bohr at Copenhagen before coming to Princeton in 1938. Credited with the term "black hole". He was Feynman's thesis advisor at Princeton.