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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPACE-TIME VIEW OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (pdf, 186K)
by Richard P. Feynman
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
© The Nobel Foundation, 1965.
This document is a revised version of Feynman’s Nobel Lecture, with amendments made by Michael D. Godfrey (godfrey@isl.stanford.edu) and Michael A. Gottlieb.
The records at Caltech indicate that the written version of Feynman’s Nobel Lecture originates from a transcript of the lecture delivered by Feynman at Caltech some time after it was given at the Nobel ceremonies. Copies of the transcript were provided to the Nobel Foundation and to the editors of Science and Physics Today. The Nobel Foundation published the lecture in Les Prix Nobel en 1965, Norstedt, 1966, in Nobel Lectures, Physics, 1963-1970, Elsevier, 1972, and it appears in The Selected Papers of Richard Feynman, World Scientific Press, 2000. In addition, the lecture is posted at the Nobel Foundation web site, http://nobelprize.org/ . This version of Feynman’s Nobel Lecture was prepared to improve the readability of the text by correcting many small errors that appear in the previously published versions.
Feynman Lectures Audio Map (contributed by Doug Krajnovich)
A spreadsheet giving the correspondence between The Feynman Lectures on Physics in books and Perseus audio tapes.
Feynman Audio Highlights
The following mp3 files contain highlights from CDs produced by Ralph Leighton, featuring Richard Feynman telling stories, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, and Tom Rutishauser drumming, and Kongor-ol Ondar throat-singing in the Tuvan style. Several CD-length audio files are available for sale at www.lulu.com (as mp3 downloads) and at www.amazon.com (as CDs).
Drumming With Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character (mp3, 2.8M)
Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, and Tom Rutishauser drum, while Feynman tells
highlights of "Los Alamos From Below," a story captured on the 75-minute
commemorative CD included with the book CLASSIC FEYNMAN, published by W. W.
Norton in November, 2005. Leighton created this composition to recall how the
"adventures of a curious character" in CLASSIC FEYNMAN were told. (Length: 2:22)
Highlights from Los Alamos
From Below (mp3, 1.7M)
Highlights from the 75-minute commemorative
CD included with the book CLASSIC FEYNMAN, published by W. W. Norton in
November, 2005. CLASSIC FEYNMAN contains ALL the "adventures of a curious
character" from Feynman's bestsellers "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and
"What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?".
More Audio Highlights
Free samplers of six projects produced by Ralph Leighton: The Feynman Tapes, Volume 0 (Fixing Radios and other stories); The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1 (Chief Research Chemist etc); The Feynman Tapes, Volume 2 (At Cornell & The Draft); Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling by R. Feynman; Ondar & Feynman: Tuva Talk; and Kongar-ol Ondar: Echoes of Tuva. All six projects may be found in their full length at lulu.com/tuvamuch (for sale as mp3 downloads); the first four projects are available for sale as CDs from amazon.com. The last two projects may be purchased directly from Ralph Leighton. (You may contact him through his link on the "Contact Us" page.)
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 0 Sampler (mp3, 3.9M)
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1 Sampler (mp3, 2.6M)
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 2 Sampler (mp3, 5.0M)
Safecracker Suite Sampler (mp3, 2.9M)
Echoes of Tuva Sampler (mp3, 2.8M)