Chapter 2 Author's Preface - Feynman's Autobiography

I want to briefly mention my past, I was born in 1918 in Far Rockaway, a small town near the sea in New York State, and spent 17 years there. Into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 4 years later, around 1939, went to Princeton to study at the graduate school.I joined the Manhattan Project while still at Princeton, then went to Los Alamos in April 1943 and taught at Cornell University in October (or November) 1946. I married Arlene in 1941, and she died of tuberculosis in 1945 while I was working in Los Alamos. I stayed at Cornell until 1951, visited Brazil in the summer of 1949, taught there for half a year in 1951, and then transferred to Caltech to teach until now.

At the end of 1951, I visited Japan for two weeks.A year or two later, when I married my second wife, Marylou, I visited Japan again. Currently my wife is Winnes, she is British.We have two young children, Carl and Michelle. —Richard Feynman