Gail Martin and Doug Farmwald discuss "Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman." Richard Feynman thrived on physics, his bongo drums and painting. It was a life of eccentric glory - a combustible mixture of ...

Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and won ...

Richard Feynman, by John and Mary Gribbin (Dutton), Cloth, $24.95. CARL SAGAN BECAME the most well-know scientist of the past several decades by replacing the intimidation we feel about test tubes and ...

Jana J. Monji’s article on “QED,” the new play about the last days of the late, much-lamented Richard Feynman, contained a masterpiece of understatement: “Feynman later served on the Rogers Commission ...

Genius. By James Gleick. 532 pages. Pantheon. $27.50. Consider the problem: You're reading James Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman (1918-1988), a great scientist who helped chart the course of ...

This week marks what would be the 100th birthday of legendary American physicist Richard P. Feynman. In a world in which many people think of the socially awkward Sheldon Cooper in the television show ...

A few years ago I came across a copy of the book “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” In it the famed physicist Richard Feynman discussed, among other things, how he helped build the first atomic bomb ...

Here’s my favorite Richard Feynman story. In December 1959, the great theoretical physicist promised a prize of $1,000, paid out of his own pocket, to whoever could build a controllable rotating ...

I have been reading Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, a bite-size collection of anecdotes from the brilliant and eccentric physicist Richard Feynman (pictured). I was reminded of it while watching ...