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John Wheeler: How Richard Feynman's first wife died

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Uploaded by on May 13, 2010

From WebOfStories.com, John Wheeler, the great theoretical physicist (and coiner of the term 'black hole'), tells how Feynman married a young artist who died in hospital in New Mexico in 1945 while he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. This story is one of thousands you can watch at Web of Stories, an ever-growing collection of stories told by the most interesting people in the world - great scientists, artists and others. It's free! http://webofstories.com

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  • Oh, nevermind - I read the description and see it is Wheeler after all.

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  • Arlene's death was Feynman's greatest tragedy; in order to manage the pain he became cynical & excessively jokey.

  • one of the best scientific minds of the 20th century !

    Thanks for positing.

  • Who is this? He looks kinda like Wheeler, but then again, maybe not.

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