Feynman was the adviser of a now-retired coworker, Ben. He told Ben to
give up study of physics unless it was a true passion because that was
the only way to succeed in anything. Ben said he realized this was the
only advice he needed to change majors and later succeed in his new
field. His main regret in doing so was losing Feynman as adviser. Not
exactly related, another retired coworker as a young researcher used to
take a train up to Princeton each month to lunch with Einstein. I loved
listening to stories from these older guys when I was a young, new guy!
73,
Mike ab3ap
On 04/16/2017 05:42 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
I did meet him. The first thing he said to me was, "Call me Dick", as
he wasn't much for titles. When he was scheduled to give a lecture to
the freshman class at Caltech we were told to arrive early because the
upper-classmen would fill up the lecture hall. In addition to his work
in theoretical physics, he was a master of the bongo drums. A
somewhat-fictionalized film of Feynman's time at Los Alamos is
"Infinity" starring Matthew Broderick.
73, Bob N7XY
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