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Frontiersman Of The Mind Synonym For Success: Richard Feynman's perseverance unlocked atom's secrets.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: JED GRAHAM
As a 28-year-old associate professor at Cornell University, Richard Feynman got excited one day when someone tossed a dinner plate in the air.
He noticed that the red Cornell seal on the plate appeared to spin faster than the plate wobbled.
The ever-curious Feynman (1918-88) started calculating the motion he observed. His equations showed that the spin was twice as fast as the wobble. He shared his observation with a senior professor, who skeptically asked Feynman why he bothered doing the math.
"There's no importance whatsoever," Feynman said. "I'm just doing it for the fun of it."
That pointed curiosity and love of physics led him down many paths that didn't result in groundbreaking work. But the dinner plate research paid off in spades.
"The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate," Feynman wrote in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman."
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