Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the royal air force bomber command, through his studies with hans bethe at cornell university, his early fri...Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the royal air force bomber command, through his studies with hans bethe at cornell university, his early friendship with richard feynman, and his postgraduate work with j.