Richard Feynman was a multifaceted man: a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a wonderful, caring teacher, a bongo player, an unabashed smartass... Above all, Feynman was blunt and brutally honest. In ...

It’s time for me to bow out of the LT25 low-temperature conference here in Amsterdam, which has just ended. The cool crowd will reconvene in three years’ time for LT26, which, I can reveal, will take ...

What was Richard Feynman's early life like? Richard Feynman was born in Queens, New York, on May 11, 1918. From a young age, he displayed an extraordinary curiosity and a keen aptitude for mathematics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After reading my weekend column about the crisis in life science research, Hajime Hoji of USC’s linguistics department reminded me of the late Richard Feynman’s brilliant deconstruction of the flaws ...

In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply ...

image: Feynman's revolutionary discoveries and pioneering work in the fields of quantum theory and its link to the theory of relativity speak for themselves. view more Feynman's revolutionary ...

In the tight little world of U.S. science, Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman, 42, is almost as famed for far-out humor as for his professional accomplishments. One of the nation’s most gifted teachers and ...