{"id":12569,"date":"2011-12-12T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=12569"},"modified":"2013-08-25T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T07:49:01","slug":"richard-feynmans-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2011\/12\/12\/richard-feynmans-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Feynman’s Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Feynman’s Grave at Mountain View Cemetery (Photo:Tim Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I paid my respects at the grave of physicist Richard Feynman<\/a>, interred with his wife Gweneth at the Mountain View Cemetery<\/a> in Altadena, California.\u00a0 Feynman died of cancer in 1988 and his wife died the following year.<\/p>\n

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The grave is marked by a very simple plaque, which my wife and I would never have found without the help of the cemetery staff.\u00a0 Even then, until we brushed it off, the plaque was barely visible among the leaves and twigs –\u00a0 fallout from the Santa ana winds that have just ripped through the region.<\/p>\n

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Richard Feynman at Fermilab. Image in public domain and available via Wikicommons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today was calm and sunny though, and the cemetery is a beautiful spot to find yourself.\u00a0 Lots of trees with birds and squirrels running about, the whole overlooked by the San Gabriel Mountains and Mount Wilson (of 100 inch telescope fame).<\/p>\n

Feynman researched and taught as Professor of Physics at the nearby California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1950 until his death.<\/p>\n

Here are some more photos at the cemetery:<\/p>\n

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If you don’t know about Richard Feynman, I recommend in addition to his Wikipedia\u00a0 page you check out the biographies Genius<\/a>\"\" by James Gleick, and Quantum Man<\/a>\"\" by Lawrence Krauss.\u00a0 I also enjoy failing to completely understand (note the word order) Feynman’s 1979 Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures<\/a> on Quantum Electro-dynamics (QED).<\/p>\n

More recently, here’s physicist Leonard Susskind’s personal insight on the man in his January 2011 TED talk ‘My friend Richard Feynman’
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