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Article: Physicist Richard Feynman, 69, Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- February 17, 1988
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Richard Feynman, 69, a professor of theoretical physics at the
California Institute of Technology and a winner of the 1965 Nobel
Prize for physics, died of cancer Feb. 15 at the UCLA Medical Center
in Los Angeles.
In 1986, Dr. Feynman served on the 13-member presidential panel
that investigated the Challenger space shuttle disaster. In that
role, he exhibited the same independence, bumptious brilliance and
seemingly unquenchable thirst for answers to puzzles that had
characterized his life in science and teaching.
His 1985 autobiography, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," was
on the New York Times best-seller list for 14 weeks. The book
described his work on the atomic bomb at Los ...