#mr. feynman

[beartusks]

is this anything (i am met not even by the company of chirping crickets)

[holymotherofgertrude]

me every time richard feynman was in frame in Oppenheimer:

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[simplicius-simplicissimus]

BBC - The Fantastic Mr. Feynman

„I was born not knowing - and have ony had a little time to change that here and there.“

-Richard Feynman

Comment: „Physics (or science) with a human face“ - the story of a man who was curious and fascinated of the world and followed his diverse passions. This week I also re-watched „Infinity“ - a film adaptation of Richard Feyman's book „What Do You Care What Other People Think?“. The film focuses on the time Feynman spent with his first wife Arline. Following the love letter from Feynman more than one year after his wife Arline died from tuberculosis in 1945. The letter was only opened after his dead in 1988:

„October 17, 1946

D’Arline,

I adore you, sweetheart.

I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.

It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing.

But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you.

I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.

When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.

I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

My darling wife, I do adore you.

I love my wife. My wife is dead.

Rich.

PS: Please excuse my not mailing this - but I don’t know your new address.“

„At some point in your life, you‘ve told a lot of stories and those stories are going to stay around even after you‘re gone.“

-Richard Feynman

[lovefromkelly]

didn’t care for oppenheimer tbh!

some parts were so cool and some were interesting!

but i thought the side characters it picked to focus on were an odd choice that didn’t add much (would’ve liked less focus on communism and the dude who maybe worked on the h-bomb and more on the science and scientists and the making of the bomb since that was his legacy), it did a weird brush over a couple discussions of morals in a way that didn’t illuminate Oppenheimer’s thoughts or beliefs (could’ve been a good acting moment too, but we saw very little internal conflict), they changed some real quotes to be less impactful (Truman just being a doddering old man and calling him a crybaby instead of saying ‘i never wanna see that son of a bitch in my office again. he doesn’t have blood on his hands. I do.”), the women were terribly written and acted and served a very weird purpose (Emily Blunt almost ruined the movie for me also Florence Pugh pausing having sex to have him say the quote was the worst scene in any Nolan movie holy shit it felt like a parody of what Oppenheimer would be), and it took some liberties w the scientists involved that totally sidelined their importance and contributions and made it seem like they were all so proud of the project when every account of the trinity test had EXTREMELY mixed reactions from them and high emotions.

all that said, seeing feynman join them felt like my avengers. I pointed at the screen excitedly every time he was there. LET HIM SPEAK!!!

[hamletofficial]

But this long history of learning how to not fool ourselves– of having utter scientific integrity–is, I’m sorry to say, something that we haven’t specifically included in any particular course that I know of. We just hope you’ve caught on by osmosis. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself– and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that. I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you’re not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We’ll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I’m talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you’re maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

– Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character.

[astrxealis]

i shut up abt ffxiv for now hii good noon u all take care :3 <333

[awesomengers]

First Principles Thinking: The Key to Creative Problem-Solving

Have you ever wondered how some people seem to see the world differently? They don’t just accept things as they are; they question, they explore, and they innovate. One powerful tool that fuels this ability is called “first principles thinking.” But what exactly is it, and how can you use it to unlock your creativity and solve problems? Let’s dive in and find out. What is First Principles…

[emberintayson]

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[denimbex1986]

'...The blockbuster science biopic Oppenheimer has been bringing the life story of the man who built the most destructive weapon on the planet. J. Robert Oppenheimer is a remarkable character in the film and I watched it myself to see how his story has been told. I’m not that enthusiastic on the study of nuclear physics myself but as science geek I was very curious to learn about his life and how the science was portrayed in the film.

What amazes me about the film is that it showed how Oppenheimer made incredible achievements in science but all his genius did was make him an instrument of destruction. Hence his namesake as the Father of the Atomic Bomb. His famous quote came from a Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”. Although Oppenheimer is the central character of the film and indeed the chief designer of the atomic bomb, the film also features several other scientists who were also the grand designers of the atomic age. There are many interesting and common features of them that they had in sync with each other in their intellectual genius. Each of them brought some contribution to this bomb making plan known as the Manhattan project. Although Oppenheimer himself was credited with creating the bomb several of the scientists were renowned in quantum physics. Neils Bohr, Howard Urey, Enrico Fermi, Glenn Seaborg, Isador Isaac Rabi, Joseph Rotblat, Richard Feynman and many more. 31 of them won Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and peace. Their contributions consisted of many different things like how much fissionable material they needed, the computations of how the atoms would fuse together, the extraction of plutonium from uranium, etc. Albert Einstein also featured in the film and was a Nobel prize winner himself in 1921, but did not participate in the Manhattan project because of his politics and pacifist beliefs. However he did co-write a letter to President Franklyn Roosevelt warning him that Nazi Germany could build a nuclear weapon of their own, and suggested that America builds it first. This was true because Germany was the intellectual centre of quantum physics that formed the basis of nuclear energy.

However most of these scientists were Jewish and since the Nazis purged the Jews from their homeland, they had scared them away and they lost all the valuable expertise they needed to make such a weapon. In fact most of the scientists on the Manhattan project were Jewish themselves. Oppenheimer among them. In later years the scientists involved in the study of radiation and nuclear energy called for global control of their science to avoid what they described as ‘a catastrophic abuse of intellectual creativity’. I’ve read Einstein’s book The General Theory of Relativity which formed the base science of atomic energy. I didn’t understand it very well but it gave me a decent understanding of what relativity is and the puzzles associated with it. The theory of relativity in it’s simplest form explains how time and space views the way particles of light move in geometric patterns. Hence the famous equation associated with relativity: E=mc squared. This explains that when the mass of an object multiplied by the speed of light (squared) it generates energy, as all things in life are made of energy from your own body to the stars in the sky. This helped physicists understand the way particles moved the way they do and it helped the scientists in atomic energy research develop the ability to fuse and split atoms. There is nuclear fission whereby a nucleus from an atom is released to collide with other atoms to release tremendous amounts of energy, as what happens in an atomic bomb. Then there is nuclear fusion whereby nuclei from two atoms are fused together to merge into a larger nucleus. This is the process by which stars form and generate energy.

Fission splits atoms while fusion joins atoms. Where this resulting entity is formed it’s got less mass because the density of the star decreases as the atoms merge together due to the nuclei discarding their protons and electrons. There is a practical application of this that can be replicated on Earth where physicists are attempting to create an artificial star and place it in a box to create unlimited clean energy. So far they are struggling to get the construction of the box right because it needs to replicate the environment of a star. Now at the time Oppenheimer had started the Manhattan project one junior called Richard Feynman was still doing his PhD. He was tasked with trying to separate two uranium isotopes from each other. By that time he was still a young physicist and this was his first big role in science, which was very unique for someone of Feynman’s age.

Before advanced computing machines were invented Feynman had to develop new methods for computing logarithms that humans can compute. It was a laborious process having to take so long to process the information by human computers, but it came in useful later when it was used by IBM for processing complicated equations. Feynman’s mathematical speciality in physics was instrumental to the computing age as it was to developing the atom bomb. However he was more focused on a bigger problem that was more to his interests in physics that needed to be challenged. After working at the Manhattan project Feynman decided to investigate a problem for the fun of it. He believed that tackling complex equations should be something done for fun, not just for a purpose like bomb making. One area of physics that Feynman took an interest in was quantum electrodynamics (QED). This described how light and matter interact and merged quantum mechanics with special relativity, the branch of physics that Einstein studied. This was a troubled area of physics that needed to be shown in a new light to examine the way atoms behaved because they did not follow classical physics rules. Feynman believed QED to be “the jewel of physics” and to examine it he devised visual forms of interpreting the way atoms worked. One of these became his most famous creation in science called Feynman diagrams. These diagrams featured photons and electrons as waves and straight lines moving forward in time and space. They are quite perplexing to look at and they represent the motion of particles as mysterious and infinite probable things. Scattering all the illusions that we perceive about how the Sun ray’s feel on your face and the way water feels on your body.

This work on QED earned Feynman along with two other scientists the Nobel prize in physics in 1965. When he received it he said “I already have got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.” This is one of my most favourite things when it comes to solving a scientific puzzle, the fun is in the exploration of the discovery or problem, not the accolade or a title. In fact Richard Feynman is one of my all time favourite scientists and I like him as a science communicator as well. Some of Feynman’s style of educating the public influenced the way I write Science Saturday. He didn’t speak like an authority figure when lecturing people on physics, he did so with humour and the grace of an entertainer. He had a wicked sense of humour and I think these qualities ought to be cherished by scientists when they communicate with the public. There are far too many scientists in the media that I see that present their facts with a condescending attitude that they border on pomposity with authority. Feynman did not do it this way. He believed you can impress people with science without speaking in a patronising tone and demonstrating it with dramatic and wonderful acts like a magician would do. This is the way of truth from a scientist that is presenting without bamboozling people with complex language. I’ve read Feynman’s book Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman, which is about his adventures as a scientist. It was very well written and influenced my own science communication abilities. Feynman didn’t just indulge in science, in fact he indulged in many passions of different alternating interests. He was an accomplished bongo player and did painting and poetry, which he infused with his science. There won’t be another genius quite like Feynman, and he may be one of the good people to come out of the Oppenheimer film that can give a positive note about the film that deserves credit.'

[morgan--reads]

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Richard Feynman 

Summary: An eclectic and irreverent memoir of quantum physicist Richard Feynman’s career and hobbies. 

Quote: “I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

My rating: 3.5/5.0   Goodreads: 4.27/5.0 

Review: This isn’t as timely a read as it might seem. Very little of the book focuses on Feynman’s time in Los Alamos and none of that section deals with the ethical questions around the bomb. Instead Feynman talks about how he developed a safe cracking hobby there and went around breaking into the safes containing top-secret military information. It’s a story that gives you a good idea of what the rest of the memoir is like. Feynman is mostly unconcerned—here at least-—with the weighty topics. The overall tone of the memoir is of a man pursuing his enthusiasm to their outermost limits, whether that enthusiasm is for drumming or for physics. He’s clearly driven deeply by curiosity, and also a healthy dose of mischief. It makes for a fun, light-hearted read, but also one that was pretty low-impact.

[longsleevelaceration]

this is the full text of his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, all just amusing anecdotes from his life. an excellent read.

Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman in His Classroom, Cal Tech, Pasadena, CA Uncredited and Undated Photograph

“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.” Richard Feynman

[fallenbratfiction]

constants & variables ~ reed richards x f!reader

a/n: don't come for me, I had to google terms and concepts, I'm in another field of science FAR, FAR AWAY FROM THIS. That's all I gotta say.

mentions: fluff, stressed out reader, imposter syndrome, reed reassures you, sweet lil fanfic. if i missed any mentions let me know!

minors dni with my blog or works!

do not copy, translate or claim any of my work as your own.

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You’ve been at it for days. Every path leads to a dead end. Every new equation collapses in on itself. The whiteboard is a battlefield of half-erased solutions, and your notebook is filled with coffee stains and frustration.

“Fuck!” you mutter, scrubbing another attempt off the board with your sleeve.

Across the lab, Reed glances up from his tablet, his brow creasing as he watches you. He’s been buried in his side of the mission just as intensely, but somehow… he still finds room to worry about you.

The whiteboard squeaks under the force of your marker. You’ve been staring at the same theoretical loop for hours now. Your hands are covered in ink smudges and half-erased formulas. Your coffee’s gone cold. Your chest is tight. You want to scream or cry or run.

Reed's voice is quiet behind you, "Sweetheart"

"Don't," you shake your head.

He stands up, walks over, and offers his hand. “Come on. Let’s take a pause, okay?" he says softly. "Come lie down with me.”

“No,” you snap, sharper than you mean to. “I can’t rest. Not until I solve this. I’m stuck.”

“You’re hitting a wall, love." he moves a strand of hair behind your ear. “And the harder you push right now, the worse it’s going to feel. You’re not going to break through it tonight. You need distance—fresh eyes, another perspective.”

You exhale shakily, grip loosening on the marker. Reed gently eases it from your hand. “You're brilliant, but you're not a machine.”

He’s not trying to be Mr. Fantastic right now. He’s not lecturing you. He’s right, and you hate that he’s right. But admitting that feels like defeat.

You take his hand and let him lead you over to the couch in the corner of the lab, pulling you into his lap like it’s second nature. Your cheek finds his shoulder, and you close your eyes. His arms wrap around you like a quiet shelter.

“You’re so brilliant,” Reed murmurs against your hair. “And I admire you for it. I’m so lucky. But I hate seeing you like this, sweetheart. It’s no use burning yourself out. You don’t deserve to run yourself into the ground just to prove you can.”

“I just worry...a lot,” you whisper.

“I know you do.”

“What if there’s no solution? What if I can’t figure it out? What if we can’t fix this?”

“Hey.” He tilts your chin up gently with two fingers until your eyes meet his. His voice is low and steady. “We always figure it out. There’s always a solution. Like Feynman said—‘There’s a pleasure in finding things out.’ And we will. Just… not like this.”

You look him in the eyes. His gaze is steady, warm, full of quiet love.

And it makes it worse somehow—because all you can feel is the weight of not being enough. Not fast enough. Not brilliant enough. Not worthy enough.

“I feel like a fraud,” you whisper, voice barely audible. “To all of you… especially to you. When I can’t get it right.”

Reed doesn’t flinch. He doesn’t brush it off or tell you you’re being dramatic. He just cups your cheek with that steady, ink-stained hand, and his thumb brushes against your skin like he’s holding something precious.

“You’re not a fraud,” he says gently. “You’re exhausted. There’s a difference.”

You shake your head, but he leans in closer.

“I know that voice in your head. The one that tells you you’re not enough, even when you’re doing the impossible. But let me tell you something—you are not failing anyone. Not me. Not the team. And especially not yourself.”

You close your eyes, leaning into his touch.

He softens even further. “You’re allowed to be stuck. You’re allowed to not have all the answers right now. That’s not failure. That’s just… being human. Being brilliant and human.”

You let out a breath that trembles at the edges, and your shoulders fall.

“The problem will still be here tomorrow,” he says, brushing your knuckles with his. “But right now? I just want to hold the woman I admire most in the universe.”

You sink into his warmth, letting yourself be held. His arms wrap around you with a tenderness that makes your chest ache, grounding you in a way nothing else can. His heartbeat is steady beneath your cheek, his fingers slowly brushing through your hair. You're curled up in his lap, legs folded beside him, your cheek resting against his shoulder. The lab is quiet now. The whiteboard is blank.

Reed's fingers move gently through your hair, slow and rhythmic. His head leans back against the couch cushion, eyes closed but not fully asleep—just resting.

Silence feels like a pause, a much-needed one.

You’re staring at the empty whiteboard, and something shifts. A gap clicks into place. Not a solution, not yet—but the shape of one. You blink, your breath hitching. You sit up slightly.

“Reed.”

He hums, not opening his eyes. “Mmm?”

“I—wait.”

You freeze, staring, running over it again. It fits. The answer doesn’t lie where you thought—it’s beside it. A pivot. You scramble to untangle yourself from his lap, jolting up so fast he startles.

“Wait—hold on, what—?”

You’re already sprinting across the lab. You grab the marker and take the cap off with your mouth. You hit the whiteboard and write. Fast. Lines, symbols, a theory folding into itself with every pass. Your wrist aches, but your mind is flooded.

Reed sits up slowly, rubbing his eyes. Watches you in a daze as you scrawl.

“Baby,” he calls, voice still thick with exhaustion. “Enough for tonight. You need—”

“No, no, no, I got it—” You barely glance at him. “Reed, I got it! It’s the derivative link between phase decay and the fluctuation threshold—that’s what was throwing it off—oh my god, it was right in front of me—”

His brows lift as he watches, stunned, the fatigue melting off him. You’re in a frenzy, hair wild, marker racing. He sees the full scope of your idea unfold on the board. Elegant. Bold. Just Right.

Reed mutters something under his breath. He doesn’t interrupt. Just walks over quietly, standing behind you.

You’re halfway through the final line when he slides his hands onto your waist. “You did it,” he says, breathless with pride. “You fucking did it.”

You turn, eyes glassy, heart pounding. “I knew it was in there. I just needed—god, I just needed to stop thinking so loud.”

He leans in, forehead pressed against yours, grinning like he hasn’t slept in days and doesn’t care anymore. “You’re a genius,” he laughs. "Brilliant!" He lifts you slightly off the ground, arms tight around your waist, spinning you in one small, giddy circle before pulling you against him again.

“You solved it!” he says, half in disbelief, half in reverence. “You actually solved it.”

You’re breathless, laughing through the rush of adrenaline, still stunned by the clarity that hit like lightning.

“I did,” you say, dizzy. “I really did.”

He pulls back just enough to look at you, hands still on your waist. “You realize this changes everything.”

You nod, beaming, heart still racing. “I know.”

“God, I’m so proud of you.” His voice cracks slightly—just enough to show how deeply he means it. “I love your mind.”

You blink back the emotion threatening to rise, overwhelmed not just by the breakthrough, but by him—his joy, his belief in you, the way he sees you even when you can't see yourself.

Your fingers slip into his hair, grounding yourself in him. The marker falls somewhere behind him and clatters quietly to the floor.

You lean in, eyes fluttering shut, and kiss him—deep, steady, grateful. You break the kiss to look at him. "Thank you," you whisper, a smile tugging at your lips.

He exhales against your lips like the weight of the universe just shifted, and he pulls you impossibly closer, his hand cradling the side of your face, the other still clutching your waist.

You break the kiss, forehead pressing against his, and breathe in the silence between you—the hum of the lab, the soft glow of the whiteboard behind you, still filled with your handwriting, your solution.

“Now we can rest,” you say, voice light, tired.

He chuckles, brushing his lips gently against your temple. “Yeah, baby. Let’s get to bed.”

And this time, when he leads you back to bed, it’s not with worry in your chest or doubts in your mind. Tomorrow, you're telling the team how you'll move forward with the mission. For tonight, the work is done.

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[girlactionfigure]

🧵Meet 15 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Who Changed History🧵

The Jewish population constitutes just 0.18% of the world (15.3 million out of 8.2 billion), yet approximately 20-30% of Nobel Prize winners in fields like Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine are Jewish. This incredible fact highlights the Jewish community's historic contributions to humanity.

Let’s meet just 15 of the over 200 Jewish Nobel Prize winners.

1/ Albert Einstein (1921, Physics).

Einstein was born in Germany to a secular Jewish family. His groundbreaking discovery of the photoelectric effect laid the foundation for quantum mechanics, earning him the Nobel Prize.

▪ His theory of relativity (E=mc²) reshaped our understanding of gravity and spacetime.

▪In 1933, Einstein fled Nazi Germany to the U.S., where he became a vocal advocate for civil rights and Zionism. ▪He helped inspire the Manhattan Project but later became an advocate for nuclear disarmament.

2/ Niels Bohr (1922, Physics).

Born in Denmark to a Jewish mother, Bohr revolutionized atomic physics.

▪His Bohr Model showed electrons orbit the nucleus in distinct energy levels. ▪During WWII, Bohr worked on the Manhattan Project after escaping Nazi persecution. ▪Beyond science, Bohr advocated for global cooperation and peaceful nuclear energy use.

3/ Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966, Literature).

Born in Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), Agnon immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1908.

▪His novels and stories delve into Jewish tradition, spirituality, and the tension between modernity and faith. ▪His acclaimed works include A Simple Story and Only Yesterday. ▪Agnon’s Nobel solidified Hebrew literature's global recognition.

4/ Rosalyn Yalow (1977, Medicine).

Yalow, born in New York to a Jewish family, co-developed radioimmunoassay (RIA), a groundbreaking technique to measure hormones in blood.

▪Her work revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of diseases like diabetes. ▪Despite gender biases in science at that time, she became the second woman to win the Medicine Nobel.

5/ Baruch Blumberg (1976, Medicine).

Blumberg, a Jewish-American physician, discovered the Hepatitis B virus and developed its vaccine.

▪His research saved millions from liver disease and cancer.

▪Blumberg also served as the first director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute, exploring life’s origins in the universe.

6/ Lev Landau (1962, Physics)

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to a Jewish family, Landau made ground-breaking contributions to condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics.

▪His groundbreaking work on superfluidity explained the behavior of liquid helium at extremely low temperatures. ▪Landau also developed the "Landau-Lifshitz equations," foundational in describing ferromagnetism. ▪Known as a genius in theoretical physics, his "Landau Levels" remain crucial in quantum mechanics.

7/ Richard Feynman (1965, Physics).

Feynman, born to Jewish parents in New York, shared the Nobel for his work in quantum electrodynamics (QED).

▪Known for his brilliance and humor, he revolutionized particle physics with "Feynman diagrams." ▪He contributed to the Manhattan Project and inspired countless scientists through his lectures and books like Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

8/ Elie Wiesel (1986, Literature).

A Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, Wiesel wrote Night, a searing memoir of his Auschwitz experience.

▪He dedicated his life to Holocaust education and combating hatred. ▪Wiesel’s Nobel recognized his literary contributions, ensuring the horrors of the Holocaust were never forgotten.

9/ Herbert Hauptman (1985, Chemistry).

Hauptman, a Jewish-American mathematician, co-developed direct methods for solving crystal structures, revolutionizing crystallography.

▪His work paved the way for advances in drug design, enabling scientists to develop life-saving medications. ▪Hauptman’s methods remain foundational in understanding molecular structures in biology and medicine.

10/ Robert Aumann - Yisrael Aumann. (2005, Economics).

An Israeli-American mathematician, Aumann revolutionized game theory, analyzing strategic interactions between rational decision-makers.

▪His work, particularly on "repeated games," has applications in economics, military strategy, and even evolutionary biology. ▪Aumann is an observant Orthodox Jew and has been a vocal advocate for Israel's security and has connected his mathematical insights with the Talmudic concept of fairness and justice. He often reflects on his Jewish heritage in his work and public speeches.

11/ Aaron Ciechanover (2004, Chemistry).

Ciechanover, born in Haifa, Israel, discovered the ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation system.

▪This mechanism explains how cells identify and destroy faulty or damaged proteins, which is essential for maintaining health. ▪His findings have significant implications for treating diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's.

12/ Avram Hershko (2004, Chemistry).

Hershko, born in Hungary and a Holocaust survivor, worked alongside Ciechanover on the ubiquitin system.

▪His research showed how proteins are tagged for destruction, which is vital for cellular health. ▪Hershko’s journey from surviving the Holocaust to becoming a Nobel laureate highlights the resilience and brilliance of Jewish scientists.

13/ Daniel Kahneman (2002, Economics).

Kahneman, born in Tel Aviv, is a psychologist whose work transformed economics.

▪He co-authored Thinking, Fast and Slow, exploring how cognitive biases affect decision-making. ▪His prospect theory explained how people assess risk, challenging classical economic theories of rationality.

14/ Ada Yonath (2009, Chemistry).

An Israeli crystallographer, Yonath is celebrated for uncovering the 3D structure of ribosomes, the cell's protein factories.

▪Her work advanced the development of antibiotics targeting bacterial ribosomes, combating antibiotic resistance. ▪Yonath is the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

15/ Saul Perlmutter (2011, Physics).

An astrophysicist from Berkeley, Perlmutter co-discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating due to "dark energy."

▪His work confirmed the existence of this mysterious force, which makes up about 68% of the universe. ▪Perlmutter’s groundbreaking discovery led to a wave of new theories and observations in cosmology, changing how we understand the cosmos and our place within it.

Conclusion.

Of the 976 individual winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from 1901 through 2024, at least 217 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, an astonishing 22% of all recipients. 

This amazing achievement underlines the huge contribution that the Jewish community has made to world progress in a wide range of areas, from science and medicine to literature and economics. 

With only 0.2% of the world's population, Jewish people have continued to shape and inspire the world with intellectual perseverance and innovation, thus leaving a lasting legacy for future generations. 

Correction *Jewish population is at 15.8 million. 

Correction: Wiesel won for peace. 

@AP_from_NY

[utilitycaster]

re: the top 5 books ask, here's what I didn't include but all of this could go on this list.

Math and Physics: Wonders of Numbers (Clifford Pickover)/Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)/The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene) were all awards or graduation presents in middle and high school; one is a bunch of wild math puzzles, one is a (very funny) memoir of a legendary physicist; and one is an exploration of a then very hot theoretical physics theory, and it's interesting to consider how all of them shaped me.

why I as a math/physics person am also an avid meta writer:Hyperspace (Michio Kaku) and How To Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card) - Kaku is a physicist as well but writes for the layman, and Hyperspace is about extradimensional physics but also provides a huge list of fictional explorations, which is why I'm pairing it with How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy. Look I cannot vouch for Card as a person given the Mormon Homophobia but this book was absolutely formative, I read it very young (not long after Ender's Game, actually), and I do recommend pirating it because I inherited a great deal of my understanding of narratology and good writing from it, and it introduced me to some of my favorite less problematic writers. These books also serve as "introduction to a billion fucked up sf short stories I read in high school"; just copy down every fictional work they mention and read as many as you can.

Medicine, healthcare, neuroscience, and the human element: The works of Oliver Sacks/The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)/The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande) - I think I would not have been as happy as a physician, but I also think had a few things gone slightly differently in my life (notably, having a high school bio teacher who was competent and whom I did not detest) I might have been pushed in that direction, and as I'm in other more peripheral spaces in healthcare, these are still very important books in terms of how I think.

Cookbooks: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (Mark Bittman) and Salt Fat Acid Heat (Samin Nosrat) - I'm a pretty good cook and Bittman's is the first cookbook I owned as an adult (I am not vegetarian but I was in my first ever apartment, as I keep kosher and therefore having two sets of dishes and buying kosher meat was prohibitively expensive as a grad student, at least if I also wanted to like, go out for drinks or pizza on occasion). Salt Fat Acid Heat is much more recent but I think that's what really freed me from needing cookbooks and instead thinking about cooking more by experience.

Childhood formative books, especially in fantasy: A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears (Jules Pfeiffer)/The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)/the general works of Diana Wynne Jones, Ellen Raskin, and Elizabeth Enright. A taste for the weird/mythical/fractured fairy tales.

Teen/Adult formative books in sf: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Susana Clarke)/The Belgariad (David Eddings)/Wild Seed (Octavia Butler)/Old Kingdom series (Garth Nix)/I, Robot (Isaac Aasimov)/The City and the City (China Mieville) - teens and adulthood formative books in sf and fantasy. The lessons learned here, in order, respectively: find the intersection of mythology and academia and if you're doing pastiche do it impeccably; if you're not original, be funny and kind to your characters (still throw rocks at them but treat them as people); with that said be original and as weird as you fucking want; write a woman who is incredibly good at what she does and build a deeply compelling world around her; no really write a woman who is incredibly good at what she does and build a deeply compelling world around her and also stupid puns are okay; get weird, play with genre, and don't hold your audience's hand.

[thesoftboiledegg]

THE REVOLUTION

I’m back, libsharts. Every year, you fall for my brilliant social experiments where I trick you into thinking that I’m gay when, in fact, I’m so hetero that I can jack to Rick and still be straight. That’s right, Tumblr: I can jack it to a MAN and it’s STILL NOT GAY. You think just anybody could do that? Hell, I can fantasize about Rick giving it to Bill Nye the Science Guy and still think that I’m straight!

But you idiots can’t. Every day, one of you gets on Tumblr and posts “Rick is gay” and the rest of you spend an hour high-fiving each other and going “So true, bestie! Rick IS gay! Suck it, dudebros!” while listening to whatever turd Lana Del Rey just shat out and crying at Whole Foods because they’re out of non-GMO raisins or whatever you freaks eat for breakfast.

But this ends today.

I’m taking matters into my own hands, just like Rick Sanchez would. Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman are going to smile at me from heaven (or hell, whatever) as I turn Rick and Morty into the science show again. I’m going to make it so science-y that you won’t be able to comprehend it. You couldn’t handle 30 seconds on Elon Musk Twitter where we talk about engineering and technology and I retweet that picture of him shirtless on a boat over and over.

NO MORE will you Tumblrinas say that Rick is gay!!!!! NO MORE!!!!!!!

Anyway, you’re going to cry hysterically when you see this email that I sent the Adult Swim office. “Sorry” if I offend your delicate sensibilities (spoiler alert: I’m not sorry), but someone had to man up, and it’s going to be me. I really let them have it, just like Rick gives it to Bill Nye the Science Guy in my dreams when I take Ambien, and also when I don’t take Ambien. Face the facts, LIEberals!

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Dear Adult Swim,

I’m Steve White, and it’s time for us to talk. I’m sure you know me because I follow the Rick and Morty Instagram account and comment on every picture of Rick with “it's getting hot in here 🥵🌶️🔥so take off all your clothes 👖🥼🧪”. I’ve been watching Rick and Morty since the start–OK, I started watching midway through season five, but it doesn’t matter because I understand the show better than the girlies, normies and NPCs in your audience.

You need to listen to me because I’m a REAL fan. I’m going to break us out of this simulation! And I know it’s a simulation because the real Dan Harmon would never let Rick and Morty go to shit like this. Once, it was a show for straight white tech geniuses like me. Now, it’s a woke commie pukefest that might as well end every episode with Rick saying “Oh boy, which guy will I rail next?”, putting that image in my head for the next ten hours.

But this ends today.

What the fuck is Birdrick? Who the fuck is Mr. Nimbus? Huh?? Like I don’t have enough dreams about Rick and muscular men!

Fortunately for you, I’ve got some suggestions that will bring the show back to its former glory. Read it and weep, fuckwads:

Every episode should start with a mathematical problem that the viewer has to solve before they’re allowed to watch it. I know this is hard to wrangle with cable TV, so you’ll have to pull it off the air and show it exclusively on a streaming service that also shows SpaceX liftoffs, Elon Musk interviews and episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Someone can’t figure it out? Too bad! No Rick and Morty for you, dumbshit.

There should be a scene where Rick looks at the audience with a single tear rolling down his face like that Crying Indian ad from the 70s and says “My God, what has this show become? Why have the writers destroyed my intellect? I can’t do this anymore! I’m breaking free of the simulation!” He gets into a Tesla and runs over animated versions of all the writers, then sees Bird Person walking across the street and floors it. Feathers fly everywhere.

Same goes for the rest of the homos. Mr. Nimbus? Dead. The dragon? Dead. No more queers! If I wanted to see homo shit, I’d watch more gay porn.

I get a post-episode talk show called Talking Rick where I share my valuable insights. To make this work, you’ll have to send me every episode early so that I can review it ahead of time. I know that’s extra work for you guys, but I bring an intellectual, nihilistic, science-based perspective that some Tumblrina dipshit with eyeball tattoos can’t begin to fathom. I’m sure that Tesla will sponsor it, so you won’t have to pay me anything. Let’s get it on the go!

The series finale reveals that Rick is Morty from the future and Evil Morty is C-137’s original Morty. Those are my original ideas that no one’s ever had before. Jot them down, I say! Jot them down!

Each season should have one episode where Rick hosts a talk show (also called Talking Rick) where real-life scientists play animated versions of themselves and discuss scientific concepts that normies can’t even begin to understand. The first guest should, of course, be Elon Musk. In fact, he should show up in every episode. Other scientists can appear, but they must bow when they see him, never make eye contact and say “Very good, sir” whenever he asks one of them to get on the floor so that Elon can use him as a human ottoman.

Rick should have sex with eight guys at once.

HAHA ignore that last one, some Tumblrina found my laptop while I was in the Spencer’s back room taking a piss. I thought it was the bathroom, but apparently it’s not? Weird, it smells so much like urine in there. Anyway, Rick should have sex with eight guys at once.

I mean in the show, not just in general.

The other day, I heroically punted a Pickle Rick pillow like a football over a McDonald’s counter, causing mass chaos in the establishment. Some guy recorded me and uploaded the video on YouTube with the title “RICK AND MORTY FAN GOES BUCK WILD IN MCDONALDS!!!!! 🤣🤣😂😂🤯🤯😲😲” Now, whenever I’m in public, people point at me and go “Hey look, it’s the Rick and Morty freak!” I request compensation for the free marketing, thank you.

I expect you to take all these ideas into consideration and implant them in the show. I know it’s a lot to take in, but Rick and Morty needs to return to its former glory, and the only way to do that is to ream the Tumblrites into submission. Remember that song you played back in season one (the BEST season), “X is going to give it to you”? Well, X is going to give it to them. And X is Rick. He reams dudes–and by dudes, I mean hot chicks–left and right. But not them. NEVER the Tumblewads. Because in the end, Rick is saving it all for me.

Sincerely,

The Real-life Rick “Pickle Rick” Musk-Sanchez (Steve White) 🥒

Those cucks at Adult Swim didn’t get back to me–but little did they know, I had another ace up my sleeve. Deep down, somebody on the staff has to know that I’m right. I knew I had to make a scientific diagram that spoke to his repressed intellect. This is going to get pretty technical, so maybe avert your eyes so you don’t pop a few neurons.

STILL no response. By this point, I was getting pretty fed up, so I decided to vent in my Elon Musk Discord server. One of the guys stupidly said “Those emails were pretty gay” and I said “No they weren’t” and another guy said “All you ever do is say gay shit and leave” and I said “No I don’t” and another guy said “Dude, why is Rick bottoming in your drawing” and I said “Haha! I was fucking with all of you! It was another social experiment! I’m playing 3D chess like Elon! Why do you always fall for these? It’s a ploy to show off my intellect! While you’re ringing up boba teas and avocado body pillows at Target, I’m going to be working as Elon’s personal servant at Tesla and REFILLING JUSTIN ROILAND’S DOGGY DISH!!!!”

I got banned from the Elon Musk server again, and I think it’s for good this time. They can’t handle the truth. Adult Swim can’t. You obviously can’t. But if it takes the rest of my life, I’m going to restore Rick and Morty to its former glory. And if I die before that happens, well…at least I’ll rest easy knowing that Dan Harmon is sobbing uncontrollably at my gravesite.

Wait, what’s the official Adult Swim email address, anyway?

[hamletofficial]

It was a brilliant idea: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

– Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character.