Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, to Melville and Lucille Feynman of Far Rockaway, N.Y. Melville was a sales manager for a uniform manufacturer, and he had more than a passing interest in ...

Before his death in 1988, Richard Feynman had so captured the public imagination, he got fan letters and poems inspired by his lectures. He often did science programs on TV, but his ...

The day Richard Feynman's wife died, the clock stopped. While some might have thought it was fate, the famed scientist knew the clock was simply broken. Scientists think differently from others ...

Before her death on June 16, 1945 four years after they were married, Feynman rushed to be with her, ... Richard Feynman died on Feb. 15, 1988 after a 10-year battle with two cancers.

As Richard Feynman once said, “a man cannot live beyond the grave,” and so surely Feynman could not speak from the grave, either. Except that actually, he did. For years after his death in ...

Richard Feynman was a curious character. He advertised as much in the subtitle of his autobiography, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character. Everybody knew that ...