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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Renee Montagne talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new ...

In 1981, shortly after I arrived in the physics department at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, I heard a strong voice resonating down the corridor: “Hey Schwarz, how many dimensions ...