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To: colorado tanker

He was good at what he did.

I read an interesting book recently, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman". A really funny read, not really an autobiography, just a collection of stories from his life.

He tells how when his wife was ill and about to die when he was in Los Alamos, he had to borrow a car to drive to the hospital...

The car he borrowed belonged to a guy named Fuchs...who you may recognize as the biggest spy there. Small world, I guess.


76 posted on 07/19/2005 8:38:00 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: rlmorel
I love reading stuff about Feynmann; he was such an interesting and brilliant man. He was genuinely devoted to his wife, who he lost at an early age.

Claus Fuchs. Ugh. The British were even more penetrated than we were.

77 posted on 07/19/2005 8:47:33 AM PDT by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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