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To: E. Charters who wrote (13041)6/10/2006 1:52:01 AM
From: Gib Bogle  Read Replies (1) of 78419
 
He was a smart fellah, or as my dad would have said, a fart smellah. Believe it or not, I had dinner with the great man once (at a mutual friend's place in Altadena, CA). As I recall, my opinion of him was rather higher than his of me. I was then working in the Environmental Quality Lab at Caltech, a multidisciplinary group working at the science-policy interface on California environmental issues. As far as Feynman was concerned this wasn't real science and didn't belong at Caltech. He may well have been right. We had a slight difference of opinion, but not on that. The conversation came around to the differences between chimps and human beings, so close genetically. He was arguing that it was all down to the difference in ability to communicate, I couldn't accept that.
(Sorry for sounding so name-droppy)

He was a kind of God at Caltech. Apart from being one of the most creative scientists of the 20th century, he was also an enormously likeable person, great lecturer ... since you've no doubt read some of his books you know what I'm talking about. Of all his fascinating stories, the one that most stuck in my mind was his account of deciding that he wanted to learn to draw (or paint?), and how he used to like to hang around in bars and pick up subjects. I'm not sure that his second wife was completely relaxed about it. The stuff about playing in a band at the Rio Carnival was also wonderful.
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