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Richard Feynman

May 2020

  • Karl Friston

    Covid-19 expert Karl Friston: 'Germany may have more immunological “dark matter”'

    The neuroscientist who advises Independent Sage on Covid-19 discusses the predictive power of his mathematical modelling

October 2018

  • the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

    Top 10s
    Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition

    From Douglas Adams to Oliver Sacks, the standup comedian reveals some of the writers that have helped him try to work out what makes us tick

June 2018

  • Philip Ball

    Einstein was a genius of physics. But he wasn’t a saint

    Philip Ball
    The row over racist remarks made by Einstein says more about the pedestals we put great scientists on than the man himself, says science writer Philip Ball

May 2018

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    Occam's corner
    Scientists are human too, so why are we shocked when they fall short?

    Jenny Rohn
    When our heroes turn out to be less than perfect, it’s an open question as to whether we should write off their work as well, says Jenny Rohn

July 2015

  • A wolf

    Life and Physics
    Has physics cried wolf too often, or do false alarms help build understanding?

    Jon Butterworth
    Jon Butterworth: Mistakes are embarrassing, and getting over-excited about a statisitical anomaly is silly. But these things happen, and the answer to building public confidence in science is not to pretend that they don’t

May 2014

  • Benedict Cumberbatch as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

    Scientists on screen - in pictures

    The private lives of the great inventors, discoverers and academics were often extraordinary. So it's not surprising that film-makers have been drawn to celebrate them and that actors have produced some terrific performances. Kit Buchan chooses the pick of the bunch over the years including Russell Crowe as John Nash and Walter Matthau as Einstein

April 2014

  • CERN Globe

    Life and Physics
    Off mass-shell: Pythagoras to the LHC, via Einstein and Feynman

    Jon Butterworth: When a particle physicist describes something as "off mass-shell", they could be referring to a bit of quantum mechanics, or denouncing an unrealistic budget. Either way, it's a bit of jargon connecting Pythagoras to the LHC, via Einstein and Feynman

March 2014

  • Photograph of Elizabeth Blackburn next to a microscope

    Occam's corner
    Do today's scientific practices really suppress brilliant breakthroughs?

    Jenny Rohn: The modern research profession is not without its flaws, but even without Richard Feynman it still packs a serious punch

May 2013

  • Feynman diagrams in Bloomsbury

    Life and Physics
    Feynman: his birthday, his diagrams and his lectures

    Jon Butterworth: Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of the birth of Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. An excuse for an unusual party

February 2012

  • Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy's parallel career revealed – as a scientific copy editor!

    Physics writer whose work McCarthy revised says the novelist has a particular loathing for semicolons and exclamation marks

May 2011

  • Richard Feynman

    Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science by Lawrence M Krauss – review

    A life of the colourful Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman gets too bogged down in science to do justice to the man, writes Robin McKie

May 2005

  • 'We live in a heroic age'

    In 1961, Richard Feynman predicted the future of physics. Was he right? Judge for yourself with our second extract.

June 2004

  • Honey, I shrank the motor

    In an obscure corner of Caltech, Philip Ball meets the engineer who rose to Feynman's nano-challenge.

March 2000

  • A Feyn romance

    Want to know The Meaning of it All? Just listen to Richard Feynman...