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And she inspired Joan Feynman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman
by MaysonL 13y ago
And she inspired Joan Feynman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman
- throwit1979 13y agoThis was the more striking part of all this for me. I've read a lot of (Dick) Feynman biographical material, read his layperson books, his lecture series, etc. Until today I had no idea he even had a sister, let alone that she also went into physics.
- zb 13y agoReally? Have you read What Do You Care What Other People Think? Because she's mentioned fairly prominently in the chapter about how he faced down a rent-a-mob accusing him of sexism ('Feynman Sexist Pig!'). (To be clear, Feynman actually was sexist, but not in the way that the rent-a-mob was complaining about.)