As a boy, Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was clearly something of a young Tom Edison, and in his anecdotes one can occasionally detect the peculiar self-deprecating smugness of the naturally smart kid.

It is an unwritten rule on Nature Nanotechnology that Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture 'There's plenty of room at the bottom' should not be referred to at the start of articles unless ...

This week marks what would be the 100th birthday of legendary American physicist Richard P. Feynman. In a world in which many people think of the socially awkward Sheldon Cooper in the television ...

No one can doubt that Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture, 'There's plenty of room at the bottom', has been central to the process by which the nascent discipline of nanotechnology has developed its ...

We think great scientists know so much, but really, they know very little. "Science," said the physicist Richard Feynman, "is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Even the most famous "experts ...

Now, thanks to the web, Richard Feynman’s unique talents – not just as a brilliant physicist, but as an inspiring communicator – are being rediscovered by a whole new audience.

Sadly, Richard Feynman died of cancer in 1988, aged just 69, but his zest for science lives on in his many published works. Wherever I am travelling and whatever books I am reading, my bag always ...