Tools can change not only how theorists calculate but also what they calculate about. But two decades ago, Ursula Klein, a scholar from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, ...

The Nobel Laureate was known for his magnetic personality and witty lectures that made even the most complex aspects of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In the years prior to World War II, physics was in an odd, ...

The precise methodology of Richard Feynman's famous double-slit thought-experiment – a cornerstone of quantum mechanics that showed how electrons behave as both a particle and a wave – has been ...

Robert P Crease reports from the APS April meeting, where Virginia Trimble revealed her favourite Richard Feynman stories Legendary man: Stories of Richard Feynman abound, including many retold by ...

Norton. 511 pp. $29.95 Anyone who writes knows how difficult it is to come up with a good title. Lynne Truss published a moderately enjoyable ramble about punctuation but somehow had the genius to ...

The late Nobel laureate Richard Feynman has been virtually canonized as the People's Physicist--an earthy, bongo-playing free spirit who delighted in puncturing the pomposity of the establishment. In ...

Four decades ago at Endicott House, an MIT professor convened a conference that launched quantum computing. Quantum computing as we know it got its start 40 years ago this spring at the first Physics ...

image: Feynman's revolutionary discoveries and pioneering work in the fields of quantum theory and its link to the theory of relativity speak for themselves. view more Feynman's revolutionary ...

A casual lunch between friends in the late 1970s left behind one of physics' quirkiest unsolved puzzles. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, while dining with his friend Ralph Leighton at a Thai ...

Richard Feynman was a curious character. He advertised as much in the subtitle of his autobiography, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character. Everybody knew that, in many ...