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Impact individual Richard Feynman

Who is he?

Surely you're Joking, if you haven't heard Feynman

One of the most famous theoretical physicists of all-time. Noble Laureate. Bongo Drum player. An Atomic Bomb builder. Space Shuttle Investigator. An amateur artist. A prankster. Above all a curious soul who lived life to the fullest.

His Claim to Fame

Joint winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on Quantum Electrodynamics.
Proponent & pioneer of the Feynman technique, a four step process to learn anything.
Part of the Manhattan Project where helped in the development of the Atomic Bomb during World War II. He also worked alongside Hans Bethe and Robert Oppenheimer at a secret laboratory in Los Alamos.
Winner of the New York Math Championship in his last year of high school.

Words of Wisdom

Feynman at his finest – some of his best quotes

“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Fall in love with some activity and do it!

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Must Read Books on or by Feynman

  1. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

  2. What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  3. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

  4. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

    Know More about Feynman & His Work

Feynman Lectures at Caltech

You can find some excellent writing on who he was, what he did as well as how he thought & taught

Know more about his humane & romantic side in this post

Explore his artistic side

Some of my favorite YouTube videos

Richard Feynman – Ode To A Flower
Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete 1080p