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ard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had a well-known predilection for playing with dopey ideas. In the event, he showed up on the day the company was incorporated and stayed on, for sum

d roboticist, I don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he told me recently. “T struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these roma

ard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had a well-known predilection for playing with dopey ideas. In the event, he showed up on the day the company was incorporated and stayed on, for sum

d roboticist, I don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he told me recently. “T struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these roma

seems to offer hope of a world where any dream, no matter how outlandish, is realizable. Other familiar names, Bohr, Schrodinger, Dirac, and later Feynman and Dyson, each made great leaps into the unknown. But they weren't alone. Physics is a collaborative discipline. Too often science stories are wr

ut be reminded of another more recent great experi- mental physicist, Robert R. Wilson—who, at age twenty-nine, was head of the Research Division at Los Alamos, which developed the atomic 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atirdd 30 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00285952 Seeing in the Dark 31 bomb during the Manhattan

rative for antimatter came through the work of one of the most important physi- cists of the latter half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman. Feynman could not have been more different from Dirac. While 97 2P_Glealer-StoryEverrold_Atindd 97 12/1006 3:06 PM EFTA00286019 98 THE GREATEST STORY

worked out the steps in between afterward. Bethe's solid technical prowess and Feynman's brilliant insights combined well when they both worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb. They would go down the hallway with Feynman loudly countering the patient but persistent Bethe, and their colleagues labeled th