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Today's home page shows MIT represented as a Feynman diagram. It was created by Ryan Mitchell, a tenth grader in Washington State. There are no labels on these diagrams, so as not to distract the viewer. Ryan rotated the top diagram 270 degrees so that the "M" could be read as a letter. (send email to Ryan Mitchell)

Feynman diagrams were invented by Nobel Prize-winning physicist and MIT alum Richard Feynman '39 as a way of illustrating the complex calculations of quantum electrodynamics. An interview in American Scientist between photographer and research scientist Felice Frankel and David Kaiser, Assistant Professor of the History of Science in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics, further explains these diagrams.(Read interview)

See today's spotlight: Footlights for Feynman: science takes the stage at new Central Square Theater. Play to be followed by faculty panels.. MIT inaugurates the new Central Square Theater with performances of QED, a play about physicist Richard Feynman, July 24-August 3. Some performances will be followed by conversations led by scientists from the MIT community, many of whom knew Feynman personally.

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