Used with
permission of Maiken Naylor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA,
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/exhibits/stamps
THIS SPACE IS RESERVED for Richard Feynman (1918-1988), the American physicist and Nobel prize winner who worked in QED, quantum electrodynamics. Feynman diagrams were his way of representing qed events and processes. However, the American public will remember him as the physicist who, before a Congressional investigative committee, cut through red tape and obfuscation to pinpoint the cause of the Challenger disaster - the blowup of the shuttle right after lift-off - with a simple demonstration involving an O-ring and a glass of ice water. This defective stamp showing the doomed space vehicle, or one just like it, is a reminder to the USPS that a Feynman stamp is long overdue, and that we also need to commemorate this country's great minds, not just movie stars and cartoon characters.