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I once took a class with Gell-Mann with only a handful of other students. He did a lot of impressions of people's accents, so I asked him if he would imitate Fe
by RK 17y ago
I once took a class with Gell-Mann with only a handful of other students. He did a lot of impressions of people's accents, so I asked him if he would imitate Feynman's, but he claimed he couldn't do it.
The funny thing about him complaining about Feynman's anecdotes is that Gell-Mann seemed to have just as many about himself.
A very interesting guy to talk to, as you might expect, though at times a little overwhelming.
- projectileboy 17y agoThanks for the tale; I recall reading from other sources (perhaps in the book "Genius"...?) that both Feynman and Gell-Mann had enormous egos that would butt against each other from time to time. It doesn't strike me that there's really a "bad guy" in this story.