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Unseating Feynman, and Fermi

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

Do physicists whitewash the legacy of Enrico Fermi the same way they do Richard Feynman? Feynman disguised his sexism as pranks and jokes, and writers have spent thousands of pages offering his virtues as a great physicist and teacher as … Continue reading →

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