Unit 5: More Feynman-related People and Things

Feynman Diagrams: These are graphic expressions Feynman used to visualize quantum field theory problems.

Faustin Bray: A musician and documentarian. (Click here for link to media company.)

Richard Davies: A physicist at JPL and a friend of Feynman

Ed Fredkin: A physicist and inventor. (Click here for website and here for the wikipedia entry.)

Murray Gell-Mann: Nobel laureate (1969, physics, for his work on elementary particles); credited with the term "quark", author of The Quark and the Jaguar. (Click here for a link to his website.)

David Goodstein: Physics professor at CalTech. (Click here for link to his page at CalTech.)

Al Hibbs: A PhD student of Feynman's; worked at JPL. (Here is a link to his obituary.)

Danny Hillis: The Thinking Machine Company (Link will take you to wikipedia article on the former super computer company.)

Richard Sherman: A PhD student of Feynman

Tom Van Sant: Founder of the Geo Sphere Project (a mapping project), Santa Monica.

Jirayr Zorthian: Born in Armenia in 1911; artist; friend of Feynman (For interesting article on Zorthian, as well as link to a website about the artist, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirayr_Zorthian )

Kathleen McAlpine-Myers: Teacher and artists's model; modelled for Feynman