Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man; {{IPA|/ˈfaɪnm?n/}} in IPA) was one of the most influential American physicists of the 20th century, expanding greatly the theory of quantum electrodynamics. As well as being an inspiring lecturer and amateur musician, he helped in the development of the atomic bomb and was later a member of the panel which investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. For his work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1965, along with Julian Schwinger and Shin-Ichiro Tomonaga.

Works by Feynman

The Feynman Lectures on Physics are perhaps his most accessible work for anyone with an interest in physics. He produced it lecturing to undergraduates in 1962. As the news of the lectures' accessibility grew, a large number of professional physicists began to drop in on them. A professional physicist, Robert B. Leighton, then edited them into book form. The work has endured, and is useful to this day.

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Books on physics

• {{anb|Fey86D}} Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics : The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
• {{anb|Fey6E}} Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
• {{anb|Fey6NSE}} Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time
• {{anb|FeyLec}} The Feynman Lectures on Physics (with Leighton and Sands). 3 volumes 1964, 1966. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 63-20717
• {{anb|FeyCPL}} The Character of Physical Law ISBN 0-262-56003-8
• {{anb|FeyQED}} Quantum Electrodynamics ISBN 0-8053-2501-8
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• {{anb|FeySM}} Statistical Mechanics ISBN 0-8053-2509-3
• {{anb|FeyFP}} Theory of Fundamental Processes ISBN 0-8053-2507-7
• {{anb|FeyQM}} Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals (with Albert Hibbs) ISBN 0-070-20650-3
• {{anb|FeyLG}} Lectures on Gravitation 1995 ISBN 0-201-62734-5
• {{anb|FeyLC}} Lectures on Computation ISBN 0201489910
• {{anb|FeyLL}} ' ISBN 0099736217
• {{anb|FeyQC}} The Feynman Processor : Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution ISBN 0-7382-0173-1

Popular works by and about Feynman

• {{anb|Fey99a}} Feynman, Richard Phillips. (1999). The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist. Perseus Publishing. (Paperback Edition ISBN 0738201669)
• {{anb|FeyPF}} The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
• {{anb|Fey85}} Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985) ISBN 0-393-01921-7
• {{anb|FeyRL2}} What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988) ISBN 0-553-17334-0
• {{anb|Gle89}} Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (by James Gleick)
• {{anb|BroRig}} Most of the Good Stuff: Memories of Richard Feynman (edited by Laurie M. Brown and John S. Rigden)
• {{anb|Syk}} No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (edited by Christopher Sykes)
• {{anb|Lei91}} Tuva Or Bust! (by Ralph Leighton)
• {{anb|DFST}} QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (Princeton Series in Physics) (by Silvan S. Schweber)
• {{anb|QEDsel}} Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics (Fermi, Jordan, Heisenberg, Dyson, Weisskopf, Lamb, Dirac, Oppenheimer, Retherford, Pauli, Bethe, Bloch, Klein, Schwinger, Tomonaga, Feynman, Wigner, and many others) (by Julian Schwinger (Editor))
• {{anb|Gri}} Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin)
• {{anb|Meh}} The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (by Jagdish Mehra)
• {{anb|Mlo}} Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life (by Leonard Mlodinow) ISBN 0-446-69251-4
• {{anb|FeyM}} Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman - Edited by Michelle Feynman (Basic Books, ISBN 0-7382-0636-9, April 2005).
• {{anb|Bet91}} Hans A. Bethe, The Road from Los Alamos, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0671740121 p.241
• {{anb|FeyM}} The art of Richard P. Feynman: Images by a curious character - Edited by Michelle Feynman (G+B Arts International, ISBN 2-88449-047-7 (1995).

Audio recordings

• Safecracker Suite (a collection of drum pieces interspersed with Feynman telling anecdotes)
• Six Easy Pieces (original lectures upon which the book is based)
• Six Not So Easy Pieces (original lectures upon which the book is based)
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Complete Audio Collection
• Quantum Mechanics, Volume 1
• Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Volume 2
• From Crystal Structure to Magnetism, Volume 3
• Electrical and Magnetic Behavior, Volume 4
• Feynman on Fundamentals: Energy and Motion, Volume 5
• Feynman on Fundamentals: Kinetics and Heat, Volume 6
• Feynman on Science and Vision, Volume 7
• Feynman on Gravity, Relativity and Electromagnetism, Volume 8
• Basic Concepts in Classical Physics, Volume 9
• Basic Concepts in Quantum Physics, Volume 10
• Samples of Feynman's drumming, chanting and speech are included in the song "Kargyraa Rap (Durgen Chugaa)" on the album Back Tuva Future by Kongar-ol Ondar. The hidden track on this album also includes excerpts from lectures without musical background.