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Article: Brilliant scientist and teacher of teachers.
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- The World and I
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- August 1, 1998
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Regarded by many as the greatest American-born physicist of this century, Richard Feynman was a versatile thinker superb lecturer, consummate showman, and lover of life and nature.
When the first atom bomb burst upon the dawn sky of New Mexico at 5:29:45 A.M. on July 16, 1945, Richard Feynman may have been the only person to see the blast with naked eyes. Like all the world-renowned scientists and dignitaries who had gathered for the historic event, Feynman had been given welder's goggles to wear. But, always the rebel, he huddled instead behind the thick windshield of a truck without his goggles, reasoning that the thick glass would screen out the ultraviolet rays. ...