Richard Feynman looked tired when he wandered into my office. It was the end of a long, exhausting day in Santa Barbara, sometime around 1982. Events had included a seminar that was also a performance ...

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988) stands as one of the most charismatic and influential figures in 20th-century physics. A Nobel laureate, his impact extended far beyond theoretical physics, ...

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 ...

How could Richard Feynman have been such a great physicist and done so phenomenally well on the Putnam competition and yet still have an IQ score of only 125? originally appeared on Quora: the ...

Classical physics suggests that objects move along a single, well-defined path. Quantum mechanics says something far stranger: particles explore every possible path simultaneously. According to ...

To many, Richard Feynman is an inspiration. Without a doubt, he was the same caliber of man, as well as scientist, as Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. He was a scientist, a teacher, a ...

As reported in the December 1960 issue of The Month at Caltech, [William McLellan] walked into [Feynman]’s lab with this tiny marvel that took him 2.5 months of lunch hour breaks to build. Weighing in ...

All these years gone, and Richard Feynman is still a force. dead more than a dozen years, but an icon nonetheless. Wander through the Caltech bookstore, and there he is, enshrined in a ...

Richard Feynman was one of the 20th century's most influential physicists and one of its most colourful personalities. Recruited to the Manhattan project in his early 20s, he helped calculate the ...

Ten years ago, if anyone had asked me about the responsibilities that come with the role of a CFO, my answer might have been different. But today, a CFO’s role does not only revolve around overseeing ...

“You and I are very lucky,” he said to me once. “Because whatever else is going on, we’ve always got our physics.” Richard Feynman and Stephen WolframTranscribed from a talk given at the Boston Public ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In December 2009 we will receive a series of reminders of the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Feynman’s noted talk, "There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom". As commentaries appear ...