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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 ...

Commissioned by Physics World for the March 2014 education special issue, which examines new ways to teach and learn physics, this colourful image is based on a lecture by Richard Feynman called “The ...

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 ...

To many, Richard Feynman is an inspiration – the same caliber of inspirational as the greatest of the greats; like Albert Einstein, Sir Issac Newton and Johannes Kepler (the man that shaped the laws ...

For anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to learn from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, you’re in luck: You can read physicist Richard Feynman’s most famous lectures online for free.

In Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s life in science, Lawrence Krauss ably describes the life of the Nobel prizewinner, womaniser and physics giant IT IS hardly a surprise that two previous ...

1. The word physics came from the Greek for natural things. In the 4th century BC, Aristotle’s text The Physics covered all sciences including chemistry and biology. 2. Physic was used in English in ...

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 ...