Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman 11 May (1918)–15 February (1988) was a theoretical physicist, an icon of Physics although an iconoclast himself, with great insights on the nature, meaning and approach to Science as a whole. He is the favorite physicist of many.

Links

• Feynman's PhD thesis: The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics
• Feynman FBI files (full here).
• Feynman Integrals by Stefan Weinzierl.
• Feynman 1947 letter on path integral for the Dirac equation by Ted Jacobson.

Works

• The Feynman lectures on Physics
• Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman
• What do You care what other people think
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

References

• Dick Feynman--the guy in the office down the Hall. M. Gell-Mann in Physics Today 42:50 (1989).