Richard Feynman

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Reminiscences

• Al Seckel shares his book review of Genius: The Life and Times of Richard Feynman by James Gleick.

Web Sites and Pages

• The Richard Feynman page presented by the fine folks at feynman.com.
• Basic Books presents the excellent BasicFeynman.com site.
• At the Why Richard Feynman? page, fans write about how they became interested in the Chief and/or Tuva.
• Alessandro Sarti's Richard Feynman site in English and Italian.

Audio, Video, and Images

• Five CDs featuring Richard Feynman drumming and recounting some of his most well-liked stories are now available for download (for a fee) at http://kongar-olondar.bandcamp.com
   

  Also available for download at this site is Kongar-ol Ondar's CD "Echoes of Tuva" that features a shamanic chant in honor of the legendary physicist and adventurer Richard Feynman.  The site also offers a free sampler of the material available.
   

• The US Postal Service stamp honouring four scientists, including Richard Feynman.
   
• Here's a postcard in memory of Richard Feynman.
  
• On the audio CD Feynman - Volume I   Richard Feynman tells some of his most infamous stories, all from the original recordings made by Ralph Leighton. You've read these stories in his books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?
  
• Richard Feynman's 1986 Dirac Memorial Lecture titled The Reason For Antiparticles is now available on videocassette.
  
• The Safecracker Suite is a recording of The Chief telling his most famous story, interspersed with drumming sesssions.
  
• View the Caltech archive of photos of Feynman. You can search for your favourite photo of Richard Feynman mugging for the camera.
  
• Sound Photosynthesis has information on available Feynman recordings and videos.
  
• Ennio Gozzi of Trieste shares his painting of Richard Feynman.  Ennio purchased this painting from Italian artist Afro Somenzari, who created this image after Ennio explained path integrals and described what he'd like to see in a painting.

More Recent Books

• 2005 sees the publication of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman.
• Feynman's Rainbow is a 2003 release by Leonard Mlodinow.

Articles by Richard Feynman

• What Is Science?
   
• NASA has posted on the WWW the entire contents of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident from 1986. It is here:
  http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/51lcover.htm. 
  
  Richard Feynman's controversial comments are indeed included, at this page:
  http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm.
   
  
• Richard Feynman's Challenger Appendix to the findings of the Rogers Commission into the failure of the Challenger space shuttle.  These observations are once again being considered in the 2003 Congressional Hearings on the Columbia disaster.
  
  
• There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Feynman's seminal 1959 talk about going beyond miniaturization.

Miscellaneous

• The venerable comic strip Alley Oop has included Richard Feynman in their story line.
   
• Here are a few photos from the premiere of QED, the play based on Feynman's writings.
  
• An article from CNN on the popularity of Feynman on the Internet.
  
• The Richard Feynman Memorial Bicycling Society is based in England and combines cycling around the Shropshire district with their admiration of Feynman.
  
• Perseus Books published The Pleasure of Finding Things Out in 1999 and sent us a nice letter about it.