>[...] and despite his gargantuan intellect, John von Neumann was constantly bullied by other scientists in the Manhattan Project for his failure to win a Nobel prize. Hans Bethe, who won a Nobel prize for discovering the fusion reaction that powered stars, would refer to him as "No Nobel Neumann" behind his back. This nickname would stick throughout the duration of World War Two. Enrico Fermi, who won a Nobel prize for discovering nuclear fission, would frequently wear his prize around his neck in the presence of von Neumann. >But perhaps the grandest prank on von Neumann was played by Richard Feynman. One day Feynman called von Neumann in his office. Imitating a Swedish accent, he identified himself as a representative of the Nobel Prize committee. He told von Neumann that he had won a Nobel prize in physics, and later that afternoon a delegation would arrive in the auditorium to personally present it to him. Ecstatic, von Neumann rushed to the auditorium during lunchtime, where he found a full audience of his colleagues waiting. Feynman, in a bushy fake moustache and lederhosen, waddled onto stage. He passed a certificate for a "Theoretical Nobel Prize in Physics", and declared that only certainty in quantum mechanics was that von Neumann would contribute anything significant to it.
>>16548463>physicists bullying mathematiciansNothing new here>In the 1960s Friedrichs met Heisenberg and used the occasion to express to him the deep gratitude of mathematicians for having created quantum mechanics, which gave birth to the beautiful theory of operators on Hilbert space. Heisenberg allowed that this was so; Friedrichs then added that the mathematicians have, in some measure, returned the favor. Heisenberg looked noncommittal, so Friedrichs pointed out that it was a mathematician, von Neumann, who clarified the difference between a self-adjoint operator and one that is merely symmetric. "What's the difference," said Heisenberg.
It's quite demoralizing to realize that those people are also just human, with all the ups and downs that it brings with it. You would think the wholesome science explainer guy Feynman wouldn't do such a thing, but it's probably best to always assume the worst from people (and be proven right about it over and over again).
>>16548463Evolution at its best.No place for weaklings.Everyone should stay true to nature and basic instinct, no matter if if he's scientist of priest.Newton was a clever scientist too, but he choose to get into politics and finance activity, to strengthen his social position and dominate others.
just walk away
>>16548463Feynman being even more based than I thought he could be, incredible.
>>16548543>Newton was a clever scientist too, but he choose to get into politics and finance activity, to strengthen his social position and dominate others.But never got laid. Sad.
>>16548617>But never got laidno one knows for sure, he might've been into secret non-obligative relationships with juicy peasant girls, very frequent practice back in those times.
>>16548475>It's quite demoralizing to realize that those people are also just human, with all the ups and downswhat you mean is retards, they are retards.
>>16548463Nobody ever got anywhere new without being ridiculed for it at some point and being told they were schizo.
>>16548753"imagining" things, anon? tut tut.
feynman is cringe, Neil deGrasse tier
>>16548779You take that back. Dude went after the space shuttle when no one else dared.
>>16548740John von Neumann was a retard?
>>16548475>>16548543>>16548583>>16548753This is a made up shitpost
>>16548583Yeah goylems put on pedestal the first sex addict jew they meet.
I feel stupid now, but thanks for pointing it out.
>>16548463>He told von Neumann that he had won a Nobel prize in physics, and later that afternoon a delegation would arrive in the auditorium to personally present it to him. Ecstatic, von Neumann rushed to the auditorium during lunchtime, where he found a full audience of his colleagues waiting. Feynman, in a bushy fake moustache and lederhosen, waddled onto stage. He passed a certificate for a "Theoretical Nobel Prize in Physics", and declared that only certainty in quantum mechanics was that von Neumann would contribute anything significant to it.Is this real?
>>16549435>>16550220>>16550333Nvm
I'm surprised how many people even believed OP. Feynman had great respect for von Neumann and von Neumann wasn't some shy autist, he's known for entertaining people and being likeable.From an interview on 10 July 1984 with Churchill Eisenhart:>The Alexanders gave humdinger, wonderful parties. I don't know whether they would be regarded as outlandish today, but they were certainly regarded as far out in those days. The phenomenal feature of von Neumann was that he could go to these parties and party and drink and whoop it up to the early hours of the morning, and then come in the next morning at 8:30, hold class, and give an absolutely lucid lecture. What happened is that some of the graduate students thought that the way to be like von Neumannn was to live like him, and they couldn't do it.
>>16550374Because things like that are common in world of science. Pretty much like in Love Island show, except they don't wear bikinis.Perelman quit because of such a low culture even among scientists
>>16548583Some vintage basedmen tried to protest Feynman because he was a "womanizer" and they thought it's sexist to pick up women. Funnily enough, all his detractors were male and the people who came to his defence were women.Truly, nothing ever changes.>[...] we found people standing there giving out handbills to everybody going in. [...] At the top it said, “A PROTEST.” [...] It concluded in large letters: “FEYNMAN SEXIST PIG!”>At the front of the hall, near the stage, were two prominent women in the American Association of Physics Teachers. One was in charge of women’s affairs for the organization, and the other was Fay Ajzenberg, a professor of physics I knew, from Pennsylvania. They saw me coming down towards the stage accompanied by this woman with a fistful of handbills, talking to me. Fay walked up to her and said, “Do you realize that Professor Feynman has a sister that he encouraged to go into physics, and that she has a Ph.D. in physics?”>“Of course I do,” said Joan. “I’m that sister!”>Fay and her associate explained to me that the protesters were a group—led by a man, ironically—who were always disrupting meetings in Berkeley>“We’ll sit on either side of you to show our solidarity, and just before you speak, I’ll get up and say something to quiet the protesters,” Fay said>I began my talk [...] I would like to talk about something that will be especially interesting to the women in the audience: I would like to talk about the structure of the proton.”>The protesters put their picket signs down and walked off. My hosts told me later that the man and his group of protesters had never been defeated so easily.
