World’s Greatest Leaders: Biographies of Inspirational Personalities For Kids

Richard Feynman, until his death in 1988 was the most well-known physicist on the planet. After a long battle with illness, Richard Feynman was the most famous physicist in the world. Freeman Dyson of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, New Jersey, described him as “the most original mind his generation” while The New York Times hailed him as “arguably the most brilliant and iconoclastic postwar generation of theoretical scientists”.
Through a series conversations with Ralph Leighton, this portrait of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner for Physics 1965, shows us the warmth and intelligence of his character. Richard Feynman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics 1965, was a world-renowned theoretical physicist, but he was also an adventurer. Feynman was an artist, storyteller, safecracker and practical joker. His unique combination of intelligence, unquenchable curiosity, and eternal scepticism made his life a series of combustible mixtures. Feynman’s conversations over many years with Ralph Leighton were taped first and then transcribed as they are now. This gives a candid, wise, funny and passionate portrait of one of the most important men in our time.