The story of the life and research of the brilliant Richard Feynman - from the mouth of one of the best biographers of our time.
Creator of quantum theories, a vibrant young leader of the atomic bomb project, inventor of the universal Feynman diagram, passionate bongo player, and excellent storyteller, Richard Feynman was the most outstanding, stereotype-breaking, and influential physicist of modern times. From the unfinished theory of waves and particles, he created, in the 1940s, an understandable tool that any physicist could use. He had an incredible ability to penetrate to the very heart of a problem. In a community of scientists based on traditional conceptions, desperately in need of heroes as much as their overthrow, his name acquired a special brilliance. He was called a genius.
He remained a central figure in physics for forty years, leading postwar science. Forty years that transformed the teaching of matter and energy and directed it down an unpredictable, murky path. His work unified all existing phenomena in the fields of light, radio, magnetic radiation, and electricity into a perfect concept. For this, Feynman received the Nobel Prize. His subsequent achievements were no less significant.
At the core of Feynman's process of discovering new areas of science, understood by only a few, was his conception of particle interactions. He was constantly searching for new puzzles. He made no distinctions between authoritative questions of elementary particle physics and modest trivial problems that seemed related to the science of the last century. No one since Einstein had worked on such a wide range of tasks.
