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 ...

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The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The three-volume set ...

Last week the California Institute of Technology announced that the full text of Richard Feynman’s Lectures On Physics are now available online for free, at feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. You’ve perhaps ...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the 1964 textbook encapsulation of Richard Feynman's legendary lectures to Caltech undergrads in the early '60s, is online for the reading, Kottke notes—for free, and ...

Over the decades, Feynman’s lectures have taken on a legendary status. CORRECTED PER NOTE BELOW: The Caltech lectures were also edited and illustrated to become the basis of one of Feynman’s most ...

Richard Feynman was obviously famous for his work as a physicist, but he’s also widely regarded as one of the most lucid and effective lecturers to ever address an audience. So renowned, so readily ...

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 ...