Some of those lectures became essential reading in the three-volume "The Feynman Lectures." Now, Caltech has made all three volumes available to read online on a beautiful new website.

In 1964, Richard Feynman gave a series of seven, hour-long lectures at Cornell University that have gone down in history as a wonderfully accessible introduction to physics. Now, you can read them ...

They exchanged a few calls back in the 1980s," said author and cognitive neuroscientist Al Seckel, who became a close friend and student of Feynman's. Feynman is perhaps best known for his series of ...

Bill Gates says in an introduction on the Project Tuva Web site that he has been hoping to share the Feynman lectures with the world for 20 years. “I think these Messenger Series lectures [Feynman] ...

Physicist Richard Feynman was particularly famous for his lectures, which were known for being an engaging and accessible introduction to a number of scientific topics. Now Volume One of The ...

Last week the California Institute of Technology announced that the full text of Richard Feynman’s Lectures On Physics are now available online for free, at feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the 1964 textbook encapsulation of Richard Feynman's legendary lectures to Caltech undergrads in the early '60s, is online for the reading, Kottke notes—for free ...

These, however, are not the lectures on which the famed book "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" was based. Those lectures were given at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1961–63.

As Rob Phillips explores in an In Retrospect article on page 30 of this issue, The Feynman Lectures has endured because it was ahead of its time, and because “his introduction to elementary ...