Being Feynman's Curious Sister - Joan Feynman - 5/11/2018

On May 11 & 12, 2018, Caltech and PMA presented Feynman 100, a celebration of Richard Feynman’s life & legacy on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
The May 11 evening event celebrated his broad contributions to science and society as a scientist, teacher, and curious character. Speakers included: Robbert Dijkgraaf, Freeman Dyson, Joan Feynman, Michelle Feynman, Janna Levin, John Preskill and Kip Thorne, Tom Rosenbaum and Leonard Susskind. The evening also included two special video presentations featuring Bill Gates and words from Richard Feynman.
Bongo drumming by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton.
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[@TianyeLi]

Lovely and humorous speech. RIP Dr. Joan Feynman (which passed away on July 21, 2020, aged 93)

[@AISaturdaysLagos]

"You all know about Richard, I just want to introduce me a little bit" ♡

[@pielcee7546]

Adorable like her brother.

[@flashers.5212]

Richard & Joan had a special father, we’ve a lot to thank him for.

[@Everyman.0314]

What a wonderful woman - honestly, humorously - talking about her wonderful brother.

[@graceonfilmsnstuff]

ok i am a sobby mess :') feynman was one of my childhood nerd crushes growin up and...

[@marys3630]

i'm sobbing too. Feynman is a great source of inspiration and has influenced me a lot. Sad to learn Joan has passed away. Wish I could've met her at least.

[@annaolesen1088]

RIP Ms.Joan, you were and are an incredible inspiration to scientists everywhere.

[@solderbuff]

Amazing family! I would be so honored by having children like Richard & Joan.

[@mauricemeijers7956]

Great speech, great sense of humor. Many thanks.

[@nazarromanyshyn4767]

Especially I enjoyed her humor at the beginning of her speech something like: "You all know Richard, let me introduce myself" xD

[@lucilla888]

as teenage girl this is very inspirational! 💜

[@vikranttyagiRN]

It was such an awesome speech by an awesome lady about her awesome brother

[@SassePhoto]

This speech gets far to little attention. Deserves to be featured!

[@vuslatoztopcu7108]

What a brilliant speech! She was also so sweet, just like her brother. May God be with them. They will be in our hearts forever. I wish I had known them when they were alive.

[@Putzflek]

RIP Joan, what a woman!

[@davidnewman8629]

I'm in tears both of them are legends

[@anuragsikder3555]

Glow brightest between the heavenly stars. RIP Richard Feyman

[@sixplus9392]

And now RIP Joan

[@rdurl5086]

Adorable smart lady. This is what a old time NYC Queens accent sounds like. I have old family from there and her accent was very familiar..

[@yanrami1838]

Another Jewish genius family. Absolutely amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to every second of this.

[@Javaman1216]

What a marvelous remembrance from Joan of her big brother. Funny and touching in the classic Feynmann style. As for Richard, I gotta believe he's up in Heaven discovering just how everything works... secure in the knowledge he's got it all figured out by now, ✍😇⚛

[@ciAMkia]

Ms. Joan Feynman (Ruzmaikin) was an outstanding physicist in her own right. She did groundbreaking work in predicting sunspots and in understanding aurororas. While there could only be one Dick Feynman, there most assuredly was only one Joan Feynman who fought through so much to receive PhD. She was a great person.

[@bobg1069]

wonderful lady, wonderful brother, badly missed

[@priyaa02]

This man has such child like beautiful smile. I love him for his witty answers followed by that smile 😊

[@BinuJasim]

Beautiful. I always like to talk to my grandmother. Old people are a source of wisdom.

[@Nautilus1972]

Only if they were wise when they were young. Wisdom is not a function of age.

[@darnokjarud9975]

@@Nautilus1972 agree!

[@RussCR5187]

@@Nautilus1972 Not sure I agree. I think of wisdom as "honest knowledge applied through experience". Age gives you experience.

[@lagrangiankid378]

Yep, but my granny is kinda racist. Not every old is wise and not every wise is old

[@yeonhyungjun674]

@@RussCR5187 I think Nautilus has point. For example reason why, albert einstine is wise is because they spend their time to try to understand the things! so their experince is related to the times they spend to understanding! on the other hand if people spend time without object and watching Tv, we would hardly call them wise! and that accumulated time gives them a wisdom. so my point is, time you spend to try to understand gives you knowdlege. more of those times, more intelligent they will be when they are older. but time itself does not give you such things!

[@HallbergAK]

Great speech, thank you so much Joan Feynman. Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden!

[@moreno1105]

Feynman , simply the best ! Thank you

[@LeopoldBlooom]

Adorable and brilliant as his brother.

[@torontocitizen6802]

An incredible family.

[@marku606]

"I thought that was very, very interesting" at 6:24 was said in a way that her brother would say it!

[@xDMrGarrison]

ikr

[@Tonicwine999]

You are so correct! - great comment and thnx for timestamp

[@MHSUPER30]

Exactly " interesting" sounds so familiar

[@yoursubconscious]

the accent - love it!

[@phantom349uj]

Last words: " this dying is boring, I wouldn't want to do it again". Death may be necessary for evolution, but the death of great minds seems cruel to the living

[@dmtaylor1233]

Very insightful to say death is necessary for evolution. It perplexing that so many great minds are taken from us early due to premature deaths like cancer.

[@dmtaylor1233]

@Nicolas Martin yeah I wasn't necessarily trying to make coincidence be causation, but Feynman and Carl Sagan both jumped out as dying prematurely where otherwise they might have been able to contribute more. They were indeed great minds, unlike the vast majority of us that couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag.

[@Aperspective1]

unfortunate if he could not see that death is leaving the womb of this world and entry into eternal world

[@babulalmarandi1243]

Lol

[@babulalmarandi1243]

@Nicolas Martin aur wo hinzda mujhe paisa nahi deraha

[@RickyJr46]

An exceptional family.

[@theglobalman8731]

Really, great speech

[@mikelabor7688]

Excellent presentation!

[@drzecelectric4302]

That was amazing

[@Nautilus1972]

Love Joan.

[@thegodfather287]

Rip Richard💙💙💙

[@stanleycates1972]

Lovely

[@DavidBadilloMusic]

Lives lived to the fullest!

[@konnichiwa7925]

Wonderful!!!

[@gregparrott]

Joan is every bit the charming person that Richard was.

[@sarrhodes8277]

She's lovely and funny, but the sad thing is that you can also see she is tired. It was a fine thing - a very fine thing - her giving her beautiful tribute to her brother. Would have made him smile or giggle wherever he is.

[@gregparrott]

@@sarrhodes8277 Tired? - Based on looking up her bio., I'd say she appeared more aged than her years would suggest. She died two years later (in 2020), at age ~74. This does seem young. Unlike Richard, she presumably was not exposed to radioactive materials. She received an 'Exceptional Achievement award from NASA for her research on solar winds and auroras.

[@HereToSin]

@@gregparrott She was aged 94, not 74.

[@gregparrott]

@@HereToSin Thanks for the reply. I proof checked your comment. It turns out we were both wrong. You were closer to being correct than me. She was born on 3/31/1927. This interview was on 5/11/2018. She was 91 at the time of this interview. She was 94 when she died on 7/21/2020

[@HereToSin]

@@gregparrott No problem man! Btw I know it doesn't really matter, but I actually was pointing out to the fact that you said she died at 74. I was just correcting that part. And I also believe you are very right in saying that she was just as charming as Richard. What an inspiration they both were.

[@kqp1998gyy]

Beautiful

[@kristapskarnitis9613]

Awesome!

[@Debunker246]

thanks for this

[@benu7930]

Such elegance.

[@bobmanahmed7258]

Wonderful

[@alphasuperior100]

Wow, I use to live in Far Rockaway New York.

[@david-joeklotz9558]

Brilliant lovely lady

[@d.s.309]

What an amazing genius 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

An inspiring story

[@RickarooCarew]

Family.. the most important thing in the World... Thanks for sharing this priceless lecture.. she was an amazing woman.. scientist.. and SisStar Richard Carew StarFire Family Industries Peace y'all Please 🙏 Peace ✌️🕊️

[@RickarooCarew]

a year later.. much to my surprise.. I'm still here... turns out passing radioactive kidney stones is not actually fatal... which seems pretty amazing when I'm in the middle of the process... I think about... physics and math.. and... eternity.. I know all about forever.. that's how long it takes to pass a radioactive kidney stone... eternity.... the hard way.. Ms Feynman has left a gap in the geo-sciences.. I hope some of my work will help... with climate change.. with the ecological damage assoiated with mining and the production of fossil fuels.. it's the only Planet we have.. it's the only one we need.. but we have to take care of it... and each other... ❤️ ♾️☯️♾️ Peace ✌️ Please

[@RickarooCarew]

Family.. my deepest condolences to the Feynman family.. a couple years late... she was a real peach... another teacher I never knew.. but love very much thanks Feynman family muchas gracias y saludos cordiales desde la Sierra Estrella 🌟 de Arizona mi casa es su casa ad Infinitum ✌️❤️✌️

[@biggSHNDO]

Lovely speech, much love and respect to the Feynmans, and you'll find setting the speed to 1.25x is optimal.

[@MandosaWright]

I like her voice and cadence :D

[@clivehenry5750]

Adjusting the speed she talks isn't very respectful though

[@dishathakur3164]

Orange juice song my god just look at his energy 😍

[@chiour]

my familly was from the same area of Feynman family in lithuania i was about to go to Kyzyl two month ago , a great uncle of me explained me thinks who sound like a mix of string theory and loop quantum theory 30 years ago. Now that i heard about Feynman while looking to achieve links beetween great uncle stuff and intrication experiment . I found Feynman dealing about Kyzyl. i will go then to Kyzyl next year because its bether than Pitchipoi and because coincidences leads to nowhere.

[@JDWDMC]

@@scrapworld6994 It's brilliant. I love it.

[@namratachilwant581]

She should have been able to given speech when feynman was alive. It would have been justice to her abilities.. This lady is so cool...

[@AdamShaiken]

" I retired in 2017 in good health and then two weeks later I fell down the stairs and broke my arm which is why I limp"...she's kinda funny and cute, too. I think that she reminds me of Marcel the Shell in Shoes and stuff !

[@holdmybeer]

i also counted time during thunderstorms as a child. what a nice, funny lady.

[@w8m4n]

Orange juice!!

[@user-yp4nm3os8f]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@xxjoeyt07xx]

She could've been a standup comedian 👏

[@irisyagueinglada]

amazing woman like her brother

[@karlhungus5554]

Her brother was an amazing woman?

[@sophiewooloo]

@@karlhungus5554 yes♡

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

The love she speaks of must have been real: his father appears again and again in his mentions of his foundations.

[@jaydotclass7001]

Summary: - Joan Feynman is 9 years younger than Dick and as siblings they never fought - PhD in Phys ('57); 3 Kids, 4 Grandkids; - Area of Expertise: Space Science, Climate Change (inspired by Aurora Borealis) retired in 2017 - NASA Exceptional Science Achievement - Being Born in the late 1920s, during the Great Depression she was born to a time where Women were believed not to be capable of science (being told this by her own mother first). Nevertheless, Dick encouraged her as best he could to become a physicist even being her first physics teacher and employer - 4:30 Feynman's Fire Story - 6:38 Dick taught Joan arithmetic by the age of 3, he incentivised her by allowing her to pull his hair everytime she got the answer right - 7:33 Joan & Dick learned how to estimate how far a lightning strike they saw fell - 8:55 "When I was learning, my mother was impressed with Dick's teaching ability not my learning ability." - After being sick, her father taught her to make a living in case the worse happened (since their mum couldn't make a living while he was sick) - 11:55 "She seeth the vineyard, and buyeth it" - 13:15 "The job of a scientist is to listen carefully to nature, not to tell nature how to behave." - 13:50 Feynman Postage Stamp - 14:40 "Orange Juice" Song - 15:50 Feynman's Last Words

[@funkycatglasses01]

That "orange juice 🍊" song was kind of catchy!🪘🥁

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@edwardjones2202]

They were both IQ tested at school...she scored 1 point higher!

[@michaeladrian2210]

Interesting. As you know, certain people are quite fascinated by IQ as opposed or in conflict with actual achievements. R Feynman's IQ puzzled many as it didn't "fit with expectation" yet here two people sharing famial genetic info, score the same on that school test!!

[@aiist6743]

@@michaeladrian2210 mashallah tbark allah alhamdulillah inshallah better astaghfirullah

[@ludvigwittgenstein9609]

IQ is overrated

[@ludvigwittgenstein9609]

@@michaeladrian2210 shows you that iq tests are overrated.

[@hadz8671]

Glad to have learned of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - I hadn't heard of her before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

[@Faheemsnotes]

Richard are you Ok?? 😂😂

[@skakdosmer]

JFYI, Niels Bohr was also on stamps.

[@webspecific]

Yes, he was on many stamps from many countries, but not from the USA.

[@Javaman1216]

@@webspecific Not to diminish Richard's honor in any way, but wasn.t Albert E. on a stamp too?

[@BluesBoy-ij2rb]

Bohr and Einstein had there own stamps as well.......................................Erik

[@ludvigwittgenstein9609]

Bohr wasn't on Einsteins level.

[@user-li4xn6gm1f]

How old was she on 5/11/2018 ?

[@karlhungus5554]

She was 91 in the video.

[@impCaesarAvg]

Richard spoke with a Queens accent. Joan, a few years younger, doesn't.

[@michaeladrian2210]

Interesting comment as another participant claimed she spoke with authentic Queen's accent.....so the drama rages

[@impCaesarAvg]

@@michaeladrian2210 Well, just listen to some recordings of Richard, listen again to her, and compare.

[@connormaurice5627]

Listen to her say father and mother ...fatha lmao

[@Shitty796]

Fhatha

[@unseensmilesmiles7085]

Richard himself hated honors. They should have respected that

[@ludvigwittgenstein9609]

Oh shut up. Poor logic 😂

[@stanleycates1972]

Reading RF book now. 2 situations where I would have slapped him. At Los Alamos playing with security by insisting on using codes with his wife and father. So brilliant and so arrogant at times arguing with security and playing games. He seemed so child like in his writing about dealing with people and relationships. Will finish the book soon and comment.

[@studiousboy644]

So you never finished

[@Nautilus1972]

He was pointing out the flaws in the security system at Los Alamos, where security was very slack.

[@yeonhyungjun674]

I read the book. I was impressed how Brilliant and funny he was. and I think he complained about how easy for someone to steal the secretes, but theye didn't do anything about it, so he tried to pointed out. I feel sad that arrogant and childish is what you only found about this great man

[@tsvetansirmanov7773]

Hellas, he missed the great truth : THIS WORLD HAS BEEN CREATED BY AN INTELLIGENT AND ALMIGHTY BEING, GOD. The Solar system, this magnificent planet Earth, every plant, animal and human has a well-considered / thoughtful structure. That means an Intelligent Being created them all, not blind nature. For the building particles - atoms and molecules COULD NOT organize themselves in such a way to cause a rose to form, or a deer, or a girl - with all the complex organs and systems they have. Even in a billion years! Therefore , a Creator, a Designer, an Architect really exists. There is no other way (Evolution is NOT confirmed by the fossils)(Radiocarbon dating is NOT reliable)(Cosmic panspermia just shift the problem) THE WORLD CREATOR SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE AND ACTS. Information about His words and deeds has been collected in the Bible. Predictions of important events many centuries before they happen prove this book comes from God. No one else could know the world history in advance. THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE IN ALL TIMES. God, the Creator of all things, guarantees (in the Bible) complete forgiveness of the sins and eternal life to everyone who (first) repents, rejects lies, thievery, murder, lechery as well as everything that is wrong, (second) believes in Jesus Christ and confesses him as a Lord and Savior. 2000 years ago, Christ came to Judea according to the plan of God to accept upon himself the punishement we deserve for our sins. Even though not guilty, Jesus was beaten, insulted and killed on the cross - to pay our debt to God. Three days later he rose from the dead and all power in heaven and on earth was given to him. Everyone who accepts these terms of God must be baptized and take part in Eucharist with Christians. When the determined time comes such a person (no matter alive or asleep in death) will be given a new body not subject to disease and death any more. All authority of God stands behind this promise! Put all your problems in prayer in the name of Christ and soon you will realize that He is a real person. And a very good friend ! Christ will return to Еarth to judge the people. A lot of signs indicate the event will be soon. Note: Fortune-tellers, astrologers, magicians, soothsayers/spiritists, "aliens" (masked demons, evil spirits) and similar to them have nothing in common with God and Christ. On the contrary - they are servants of Satan whose purpose is to deceive and ruin. Be on your guard !

[@jp5481]

I hate to break it to you, but evolution is a fact. Proved over and over, not only in the fossil record, but from anatomy, genetics, and more. It may not fit with your interpretation of the bible, but it *is* a fact I'm afraid.

[@andrecats6206]

Do you you really feel the urge to write such a lot of nonsense in a post, devoted to a genious man who only believed in the power of nature? How sad...

[@tsvetansirmanov7773]

@@andrecats6206 You can NOT resist the logic of my presentation. The facts are against you.

[@atomlanchenba2932]

@@tsvetansirmanov7773 hey man i am not a true believer of a supreme Almighty God in whatever religion u called it. But science and religion should not collide. Appreciate this great scientist or be off the internet...

[@adityaprakash1647]

You read texts from Hinduism , Buddhism .. etc. etc. whatever eastern religious texts even the myths sound inspiring .. but the Christian texts or atleast these KZbin salespeople of christianity gosh .. sounds total red flag