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Richard P. Feynman
[1918-1988]
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled."
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." (in 1965)
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
— Richard P. Feynman
BIO
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Richard P. Feynman official website
Richard P. Feynman entry at Wikipedia
shared 1965 Nobel Prize
Richard P. Feynman credits [1962-2001] at Internet Movie Database
Major Works
Richard P. Feynman Bibliography at Amazon
The Feynman Lectures On Physics books category at Amazon
Feynman Lectures On Physics website
http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Princeton-Science-Library/dp/0691125759/
http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/0691024170/
http://www.amazon.com/Six-Easy-Pieces-Essentials-Brilliant/dp/0465023924/
http://www.amazon.com/Six-Not-So-Easy-Pieces-Relativity-Space-Time/dp/0465023932/
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Papers-Richard-Feynman-Commentary/dp/9810241305/
Feynman's Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures
given at the University of Auckland (New Zealand} in 1979
http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8
http://www.phy.auckland.ac.nz/html/feynman_online.html
Other Works
 | "Anti-Clock" feature film [U.K. 1979, USA Sept 1980] Too-artsy film about a young man who rejects post-atomic society and wanders around spouting dubious wisdom. Written & co-directed by Jane Arden; produced & co-directed by Jack Bond; starring Sebastian Saville, Suzan Cameron, Liz Saville, Louise Temple, with Richard Feynman {as The Physicist} British Film Institute color Blu-ray [7/2009] for $51.99 British Film Institute color/b&w PAL DVD [7/2009] 2 disks for £12.98 at Amazon U.K. full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynmann" (WWNorton HB 2-85, Bantam pb 2-86)
http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041/
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of A Curious Character"
[1988] http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0393320928/
"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" [Helix/Perseus 1999]
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Finding-Things-Out-Richard/dp/0465023959/
"The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of A Citizen Scientist" [Perseus Publng 1999] ISBN 0738201669.
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393061329/
http://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Reasonable-Deviations-Beaten-Track/dp/0738206369/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Richard-P-Feynman-Character/dp/2884490477/
Works About Richard P. Feynman
"Fun To Imagine" [BBC-TV 1983]
Co-produced & directed by Christopher Sykes; VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available;
full credits at IMDb
"The Quest For Tannu Tuva" [BBC-TV 1988]
Co-produced & directed by Christopher Sykes; VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available;
full credits at IMDb
"Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" [Pantheon 1992] by James Gleick ISBN 0679747044
"Most of The Good Stuff: Memories of Richard Feynman" [Simon & Schuster 1993]
Edited by Laurie M. Brown & John S. Rigden / ISBN 0883188708
with commentary by Joan Feynman, John Wheeler, Hans Bethe, Julian Schwinger, Murray Gell-Mann,
Daniel Hillis, David Goodstein, Freeman Dyson & Laurie Brown
"No Ordinary Genius" A two-part documentary about Feynman's life and work, 1993, BBC TV 'Horizon' and PBS 'Nova' (a one-hour version, under the title "The Best Mind Since Einstein") (2 x 50 mins films)
http://www.amazon.com/No-Ordinary-Genius-Illustrated-Richard/dp
"No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" [W.W. Norton, 1994]
Edited by Christopher Sykes ISBN 0393036219 + /039331393X/
"The Beat of A Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman"
[Oxford Univ Press 1994] by Jagdish Mehra ISBN 0198539487
 | "Q.E.D. and The Men Who Made It - Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger & Tomonaga" [1994] by Silvan S. Schweber Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [4/94] for $34.65 Princeton Univ Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [4/94] out of print/rare |
 | "Infinity" [First Look Intl. Oct 1996] Young Richard Feynman is fascinated with science. He graduates college and marries his high school sweetheart, who is diagnosed with tuberculosis, then accepts a job with the secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in New Mexico, where he studies nuclear physics as well as any medical research that might lead to a cure for his wife's failing health. Location filming included Los Alamos & Las Vegas, New Mexico and Princeton, New Jersey Co-pro- duced by Matthew Broderick, Patricia Broderick & others; directed by & starring Matthew Broderick; script by Patricia Broderick, based on two books; also starring Patricia Arquette First Look Pictures color DVD [10/2002] for $7.98 B.M.G. Video color VHS [1/98] out of prodn/used Intrada Records soundtrack CD [10/96] 15 tracks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Richard Feynman: A Life In Science" [Dutton 1997] by John & Mary Gribbin ISBN 052594124X
"Tuva or Bust!" [2000] by Ralph Leighton /0393320693/
"Q.E.D." stageplay 'inspired by the works of Richard Feynman' [2001]
Written by Peter Parnell; directed by Gordon Davidson, starring Alan Alda
48 weekly performances October 2001 to June 2002; credits at Internet Broadway Database
http://www.amazon.com/QED-Inspired-Writings-Richard-Leighton/dp/B0020HRLHG/
"Feynman's Rainbow: A Search For Beauty In Physics & In Life" [Warner Books 2003]
by Leonard Mlodinow ISBN 0-446-69251-4 (published in the United Kingdom as "Some Time With Feynman"}
 | "The Best of N.P.R.: Biography and Autobiography" [1998] from National Public Radio Hachette ABR audio CD [3/98] out of prodn/used N.P.R. on-air interviews with authors of biographies & autobiographies of: Frank McCourt, Stephen Ambrose (on Nixon), Glenn Gould, Edmund Morris (on Reagan), James McBride, M.F.K. Fisher, Mary Karr, Richard Feynman, and more |
 | "Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life In Science" [2011] by Lawrence M. Krauss W.W. Norton & Co. pb [DUE March 2012] for $10.85 
W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5¾ hardcover [3/2011] for $14.33 |
 | "Feynman: If That's The World's Smartest Man, God Help Us" [2011] graphic biography by Jim Ottaviani, Illustrated by Leland Myrick First Second 8¾x6½ hardcover [8/2011] for $18.48 |
Links
Richard P. Feynman entry at Wikipedia
shared 1965 Nobel Prize
Richard P. Feynman credits [1962-2001] at Internet Movie Database
Richard P. Feynman Bibliography at Amazon
Richard P. Feynman official website
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http://www.scs-intl.com/cgi-bin/webzone/zone.cgi?list
Richard P. Feynman at the CalTech Archives
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