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then I went to Princeton, in about 1939. During the time I was at Princeton
I started to work on the Manhattan Project, and I ultimately went to Los
Alamos in April 1943, until something like October or November 1946, when I
went to Cornell.
I got married to Arlene in 1941, and she died of tuberculosis while I
was at Los Alamos, in 1946.
I was at Cornell until about 1951. I visited Brazil in the summer of
1949 and spent half a year there in 1951, and then went to Caltech, where
I've been ever since.
I went to Japan at the end of 1951 for a couple of weeks, and then
again, a year or two later, just after I married my second wife, Mary Lou.
I am now married to Gweneth, who is English, and we have two children,
Carl and Michelle.
R. P. F.




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Part 1


From Far Rockaway to MIT



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He Fixes Radios by Thinking!


When I was about eleven or twelve I set up a lab in my house. It
consisted of an old wooden packing box that I put shelves in. I had a
heater, and I'd put in fat and cook french-fried potatoes all the time. I
also had a storage battery, and a lamp bank.
To build the lamp bank I went down to the five-and-ten and got some
sockets you can screw down to a wooden base, and connected them with pieces
of bell wire. By making different combinations of switches - in series or
parallel - I knew I could get different voltages. But what I hadn't
realized was that a bulb's resistance depends on its temperature, so the
results of my calculations weren't the same as the stuff that came out of
the circuit. But it was all right, and when the bulbs were in series, all
half-lit, they would gloooooooooow, very pretty - it was great!
I had a fuse in the system so if I shorted anything, the fuse would
blow. Now I had to have a fuse that was weaker than the fuse in the house,
so I made my own fuses by taking tin foil and wrapping it around an old
burnt-out fuse. Across my fuse I had a five-watt bulb, so when my fuse blew,
the load from the trickle charger that was always charging the storage
battery would light up the bulb. The bulb was on the switchboard behind a
piece of brown candy paper (it looks red when a light's behind it) - so if
something went off, I'd look up to the switchboard and there would be a big