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OldGuyInTheClub
on July 30, 2023
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Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)
That'll be hard to defend given von Neumann was on the effort.
theptip
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And Bethe, and Fermi. Feynman was a small fry there, at the time. (As he happily relates in his memoirs.)
oldstrangers
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Fair enough. One of the best minds on the project.
OldGuyInTheClub
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Perhaps we can say Feynman was the best
human
mind on the project since von Neumann et.al. are suspected to be from Mars. ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
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