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    Arline Helen (Greenbaum) Feynman (1919 - 1945)

    ArlineHelenFeynman formerly Greenbaum

    Born in New York, United States
    Ancestors

    Daughter of Samuel Greenbaum and Harriet Vivian Franklin

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    Wife of Richard Phillips Feynman— married 28 Jun 1942 (to 16 Jun 1945) in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States

    [children unknown]

    Died at age 25in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States

    Profile last modified | Created 3 Dec 2014

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    Biography

    Arline was born in 1919. She was the daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Franklin) Greenbaum.

    She was married to Richard Feynman.[1]

    Arline died of tuberculosis in 1945.[2][3]

    Sources

    1. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKG2-R446 : accessed 25 July 2023), Arline H Greenbaum in entry for Dr Richard Phillips Feyn

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      Richard Feynman’s first wife, his high school sweetheart Arline Greenbaum, died of a rare form of tuberculosis at age 25. He was crazy in love with her, and, when she was near death, he rushed from Los Alamos, where he was working on the Manhattan Project, to be by her side at the Albuquerque sanatorium. She died on on June 16, 1945. You can get a fuller account of their romance and her death at the Big Think and Brainpickings, both of which reproduce Feynman’s letter to the departed Arline.

      The letter was written in 1946, a year and four months after Arline died, and was sealed in an envelope and stashed away. After Feynman’s own death from cancer, biographer James Gleick found the letter in a box of papers sent to him by Feynman’s widow, Gweneth. Imagine the poignancy of opening that envelope and reading this beautiful and tear-making postmortem farewell. At the end it also has a bit of his characteristic humor (Feynman was an atheist.)

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      by Mark Martin

      1. Prologue:

      Twentieth century physics is very often defined by a pair of sweeping, powerful icons of nature, namely, the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics, which were brought into the world at about the years 1915 and 1925, respectively. But tucked between these two dates is the year 1918, and in the spring of that year there came into the world another sweeping icon capable of single handedly defining twentieth century physics, and that icon was, and is, Richard Feynman. He was born into what was, in retrospect, perhaps an intellectual stew simmering to perfection.

      2. How to Start a Feynman:

      Feynman’s childhood home was in the community of Far Rockaway, just on the southern skirt of Manhattan. Financially his family was neither rich nor poor. They were materially comfortable, but not wealthy. As a young man he had the opportunity to learn to work industriously, but without undo pressure to perform. That in itself would be a theme that

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