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OldMork t1_iu7n1hd wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT. by icbm67

Manhattan project did have several russian spies, but RF was not one of them.

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icbm67 OP t1_iu85y60 wrote

Exactly, Fuchs was a spy and before he was caught he was asked once that who could be a spy among the Los Alamos scientists. He accused Feynman because RF would pick locks on the safes of other scientists and would travel to Albuquerque (to visit his dying wife).

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lemmecheckit t1_iuaovik wrote

Picking locks seems like something a spy would do

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icbm67 OP t1_iucgtd8 wrote

He did it for fun and to prove that he could do "magic".

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