Richard P. Feynman was a theoretical physicist whose contributions to quantum physics earned him the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga). Feynman, along with Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands, authored a three-volume textbook entitled The Feynman Lectures on Physics, based on a series of lectures he delivered to his students at the California Institute...

The video on the homepage of the Official Site of Richard Feynman is reason enough to visit. It features Feynman, the theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner, and best selling author, lecturing to a group of undergraduates on the topic of scientific and unscientific understandings of nature. The talk is wildly entertaining, vivacious, and intellectually clear; viewers are left with a vivid sense...