Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion

Re:Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion by willvarfar on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:46PM (#7227577)

I thought his role on the Manhattan project was keeping the IBM calculators going?

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Re:Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion by DougMerritt on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @05:25PM (#7227792)

That is far from the only thing he did. He was the wunderkind of the project, and he did all kinds of things.

See for instance Gleick's Feynman biography, "Genius".

Another good read about the project is this bio: "The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor"

...which is obviously mostly about Taylor (on the Manhattan Project), but has some Feynman anecdotes.

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