Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988) stands as one of the most charismatic and influential figures in 20th-century physics. A Nobel laureate, his impact extended far beyond theoretical physics, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Feynman's famous diagrams embody a deep shift in thinking about how the universe is put together. Richard Feynman looked tired when he wandered into my office. It was the end of a long, ...

Robert P Crease reports from the APS April meeting, where Virginia Trimble revealed her favourite Richard Feynman stories Legendary man: Stories of Richard Feynman abound, including many retold by ...