Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman is
remembered not only for fathering quantum electrodynamics, but also for
his mischievous streak — especially throughout his work on the Manhattan
Project building the first atom bomb.
But while his roguish charm won over
classrooms and the public, Feynman was subjected to years of espionage
and scrutiny as the Federal Bureau of Investigation trailed him and his
associates, intent on rooting out communist sympathies from the man who
helped make America the world’s first nuclear power.
For the first time, FBI records of
Feynman which detail this tension—as well as hundreds of pages of
interviews with his colleagues, friends and acquaintances—have been
released online to the public by MuckRock.
After successfully helping development of
the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, Feynman largely left government service
for a career in academia, first at Cornell and later Caltech (he would
continue to occasionally consult for the government, such as on the
Challenger explosion task force).
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