[Elecraft] Feynman - A little theory

[Mike Markowski]

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