Richard P. Feynman, born in Queens on May 11, 1918, was the most extraordinary physicist since Einstein. He was also, briefly and late in life, the most famous scientist in America, the one everybody ...
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In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...
For Photos, go to: http://www.usps.com/communicat ions/news/stamps/2004/sr04_076.htm PASADENA, Calif. – Widely regarded as one of the most influential physicists of ...
PASADENA – If legendary physicist Richard Feynman has a ghost, it surely summers at Caltech – or at least indulges in a regular nightcap there among the manicured lawns. The seminal lecture series he ...
All these years gone, and Richard Feynman is still a force. dead more than a dozen years, but an icon nonetheless. Wander through the Caltech bookstore, and there he is, enshrined in a ...
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 ...
In the tight little world of U.S. science, Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman, 42, is almost as famed for far-out humor as for his professional accomplishments. One of the nation’s most gifted teachers and ...
After reading my weekend column about the crisis in life science research, Hajime Hoji of USC’s linguistics department reminded me of the late Richard Feynman’s brilliant deconstruction of the flaws ...
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Illustration of a polaron in a crystal: the central bright sphere is the charge carrier, distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines represent high-order Feynman diagrams for the ...
Kerry J. Vahala, assistant professor of applied physics and a specialist in quantum electronics and lasers at the California Institute of Technology, has been chosen as the first recipient of the ...