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ebbyamir on Nov 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oppenheimer's recommendation letter for Richard Fe...

What are the chances Oppenheimer asked Feynman to write it himself. I've had professors do that because they were too busy haha.

dennisgorelik on Nov 13, 2011 [–]

It's fun to imagine that, but realistically why would Feynman write that recommendation if he didn't want to accept the position?

ThaddeusQuay2 on Nov 14, 2011 | [–]

Because he wanted to future prank the historians. We can thus add "inventor of the FuturePrank" to his list of accomplishments.

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