What was Richard Feynman's early life like? Richard Feynman was born in Queens, New York, on May 11, 1918. From a young age, he displayed an extraordinary curiosity and a keen aptitude for mathematics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicist Richard Feynman helped create the atomic bomb, shared a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics, and helped figure out the source of the space shuttle Challenger explosion. But ...

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 ...