What makes for genius in science? One day we may be able to link it to particularly advantageous patterns of neurons and axons in specific locations of the brain. But even if that day should come, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a hearing of the presidential commission investigating the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman conducted an experiment of sorts in the media-packed room. The Caltech physicist ...

Physicist Richard Feynman was labelled "all genius, all buffoon" for his eccentric approach to science Nobel Prize-winning and eccentric physicist Richard Feynman has been called a buffoon and a ...