I got a dollar for my patent! I give it to everybody. Result: everybody who has one of these patent because it was easy a lot of people had been sending things in lots of patents. Everybody come down they want their dollar. He starts shelling them out of his pocket then he realizes, it's going to be a hemorrhage.
— Richard Feynman Modern

Quantum electrodynamics

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Recounting a prank where he insisted on receiving the ceremonial dollar for his patents, causing a bureaucratic headache

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During or after Manhattan Project (approx. 1940s)

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