The Cox-Feynman correspondence, brief as it was, garnered attention, especially in the internet age: A Google search yields pages and pages of hits. It’s been immortalized in print, too. For starters, ...

Richard P. Feynman, "The Great Explainer," 1965 Nobel Prize winner, player of bongos, seducer of women, launcher of thousands of dreamy-eyed physics majors.

Richard Feynman Is The 'Quantum Man' In his new book, Quantum Man, physicist and writer Lawrence M. Krauss describes the scientific contributions, and unique mind, ...

As a boy, Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was clearly something of a young Tom Edison, and in his anecdotes one can occasionally detect the peculiar self-deprecating smugness of the naturally smart kid.

Richard Feynman, one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, had a unique ability to make the complex ...

Enter Richard Feynman, who had distaste for unnecessary abstraction. If gravitational radiation is real, it must convey energy. Rather than debating the technical question of whether or not the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feynman, though primarily known for his physics work, offered profound perspectives on the future of AI in 1985. His insights continue to resonate today, especially as the field of artificial ...

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

Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage ...