The personality of a scientist —— Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was an accomplished scientist with a distinctive personality. Most people only know that he is a Nobel Prize winner or a famous physicist, but few people know that he is still an artist.
Feynman is often fascinated by the lines and structures of painting. He feels that his love for art is closely related to physics —— both are expressing the beauty and complexity of the natural world. He expresses his emotions for the beauty of nature through brushes. Physics is a kind of mathematics that appreciates the beauty of nature, and realizes how wonderful and magnificent it is to recognize the complex structure and movement of atoms. This is a feeling of awe —— awe for science. He feels that people can also experience this feeling through painting. And can tell others: Please feel the beauty of the universe at this moment. Feynman's extraordinary scientific achievements benefited from his artistic thinking.
In 1986, after the "Challenger" crash, Feynman was commissioned to investigate the cause of the crash. Feynman did a well-known O-ring demonstration experiment. With only a glass of ice water and a rubber ring, the root cause of the challenger's accident was revealed to the public in Congress-rubber loses elasticity at low temperatures. Feynman's love for art gave him a special ability: he was able to express complex ideas in simple language, which made him also a fruitful educator. The Feynman's Lectures on Physics was not written by Feynman himself.It was based on Feynman's Lectures at the California Institute of Technology from September 1961 to May 1963. An excerpt of the book) is probably a more interesting work than most other physical works. These handouts were written by Feynman for college students in 1962. With its publication, a large number of professional physicists began to invest in it. Physicist Robert B. Leighton compiled them into a book, which has stood the test of time and is still very applicable today. Even more surprising is that Feynman is also a tambourine player, a Mayan hieroglyphic decipherer, and a master of safe code cracking ... Physicist Bate said that there are two geniuses in the world: Genius did great work, but made other scientists feel that if they worked hard, they could do that kind of work; another genius was like performing magic. And the latter genius was Feynman."
In Feynman's view, there are five levels of scientific career: the first is to learn to measure and calculate and its applications in various aspects (training engineers); the second is to train scientists, not only committed to the development of industry, but also contribute to The progress of human knowledge; the third is to understand the beauty of nature, to feel the stability and reality of the world; the fourth is to learn from unknown to known, scientific methods of knowledge; the fifth is to learn by trial and error, which has universal significance The creative spirit of free exploration.
"The father of the atomic bomb" Oppenheimer said, "He is the most talented young physicist here. He has a very attractive character and personality. He is an excellent teacher and has a passion for all aspects of physics."
