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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...

Physicist Richard Feynman helped create the atomic bomb, shared a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics, and helped figure out the source of the space shuttle Challenger explosion. But ...

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For anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to learn from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, you’re in luck: You can read physicist Richard Feynman’s most famous lectures online for free.

The legend lives on: born 100 years ago, Richard Feynman won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics and is shown here lecturing at CERN shortly after picking up the prize. (Courtesy: CERN) Feynman’s ...

In Space Oddities , Harry Cliff explores the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics. Plus: what to know about 'fried rice syndrome' and reverse sprinklers. Born out of a thought experiment, this ...

Stephen Hawking has done a Reddit AMA and much of it is both interesting and about AI which isn't what I'm about here. However, Hawking strays over into the economic effects of AI, of the robots ...