The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

Post by sn9 » Sat, May 13, 2023, 8:21 PM UTC

jhbadger wrote: post #8

sillysaurusx wrote: post #7

> He joined a fraternity, one of the two that took in Jews. This was a surprising reminder that things were very different in 1935. I wonder, is there any group like this today? “One of the two that took in X” for any X seems like an interesting formula for locating outliers, whether good or bad. A lot of nasty examples come to mind, but it’s hard to know how Jews were regarded at the time. I wonder what the official…

And he only went to MIT as an undergraduate because his first choice Columbia had a "Jew quota" and they had already admitted all the Jews they wanted to for that year. Besides the antisemitism, it's also a reminder that in the 1930s MIT was seen as a good, but not particularly elite school and would be somebody's backup school.

Columbia is also in New York, so for Feynman it was one of the major universities closest to him.

Post by sn9 » Sat, May 13, 2023, 8:23 PM UTC

olddustytrail wrote: post #29

tshaddox wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no inside information and I haven’t done any particularly focused research into any of the claims. I’m only referring to extremely widely known and very easy to find claims that are much more specific than the single word “womanizing.” I’m not trying to convince anyone of their veracity or litigate details of claims on a point by point basis. I just think it’s disingenuous to reduce all such claims to a single…

It's not widely known to me and I found concrete claims difficult to find. Why are you so shy about simply naming specifics on a subject you claim is widely known and easy to find information on?

They're described in detail in the book reviewed in the link this entire thread is responding to.

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