In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The legend lives on: born 100 years ago, Richard Feynman won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics and is shown here lecturing at CERN shortly after picking up the prize. (Courtesy: CERN) Feynman’s ...

Bongo player, womanizer and all-round practical joker are common depictions used by biographers to describe the great 20th century physicist, Richard Feynman. But in his new book, the theoretical ...

In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply ...

Andy Kessler’s excellent “Follow Michael Crichton’s Rule” (Inside View, Nov. 4) on the dumbing down of “science, the data and the studies” brings to mind the great Nobel physicist Richard Feynman’s ...