Richard Feynman, James Watson and Jacob Bronowski produced bestselling books without diluting their reputations.
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Both Feynman and his upcoming book, Primates, are published by First Second, a division of Macmillan.
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As he explained to me over dinner last month, Richard Feynman was his hero.
Carver says Feynman was the Mozart of physics, a gifted intuitive, one in a billion.
Makes me wish somebody like Richard Feynman was still around to chair it.
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Theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, scientist Dorothy Hodgkin and science lecturer Richard Feynman have also been honoured with road names.
Back in 1959 American physicist Richard Feynman famously predicted that we'd be creating atom sized machines in the future.
The military knew better than to punish Feynman for his illegal yet ultimately harmless actions if it wanted results.
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Feynman could have been as great as Einstein, Carver believes, but he operated in the background radiation of Bohr, the great intimidator.
On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics.
Like his pupil Feynman, he had a fine sense of humour.
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They both arrived at Caltech in the early 1950s--Carver the freshman whiz kid from the Sierra foothills outside of Fresno, Feynman a young professor from Cornell.
Against this background, Mr Magueijo's attempt to portray himself as a brilliant maverick, a successor to Richard Feynman, or a rival theorist to the great Einstein, is simply laughable.
And not just in the hard information sciences, either. (We won't attempt to cover biotech in this column.) The quantum era so fetchingly described by Feynman has loosened our thinking in other fields, too.
So Gilder took to the quadrangle once more and read another ten dozen books, this time on light and the electromagnetic spectrum, until he could pass for the ghost of Richard Feynman, sans bongo drums.
This research also explains why so many major breakthroughs happen in the unlikeliest of places, whether it's Archimedes in the bathtub or the physicist Richard Feynman scribbling equations in a strip club, as he was known to do.
Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman are just a few noted scientists off the top of my head who made it a point to communicate the achievements of science to the public at large.
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