Widely considered one of the most brilliant physicists since Albert Einstein, Richard P. Feynman would have turned 100 this Friday, May 11. He was known for his work and innovation in theoretical ...

Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose contemporaries thought that he had the finest brain in physics. He was born on May 11, 1918, in Manhattan and grew up in Far Rockaway, N.Y., a ...

Robert P Crease reports from the APS April meeting, where Virginia Trimble revealed her favourite Richard Feynman stories Legendary man: Stories of Richard Feynman abound, including many retold by ...

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A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...

It was World War II and scientists belonging to the Manhattan Project worked on calculations for the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, in one of the buildings, future Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist ...

The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The three-volume set ...

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Bongo player, womanizer and all-round practical joker are common depictions used by biographers to describe the great 20th century physicist, Richard Feynman. But in his new book, the theoretical ...

Richard Feynman was a curious character. He advertised as much in the subtitle of his autobiography, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character. Everybody knew that, in many ...

Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, is on a new mission. And this one takes him back to the days of his first love, theoretical physics. Blackley has started a petition to have the 1974 Dodge ...