Richard Feynman's most enduring quote was never intended as a memorable slogan. It came from his 1974 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, where the Nobel Prize-winning ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

If you could pass on only one piece of scientific knowledge to the future—.Feynman chose the sentence, "Everything is made of ...

Richard Feynman could turn almost anything into physics and math. Even lunch. One day in the late 1970s, the Nobel ...

A foundational postulate of quantum physics has been directly verified by an experiment for the first time. Formulated by Richard Feynman nearly 80 years ago, it has long formed the backbone of much ...

Illustration of a polaron in a crystal: the central bright sphere is the charge carrier, distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines represent high-order Feynman diagrams for the ...

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For 141 years, physicists like Richard Feynman have puzzled over a question of fluid flow: how would a sprinkler rotate if it were underwater, sucking in the stuff instead of spewing it? Now, a team ...

Kerry J. Vahala, assistant professor of applied physics and a specialist in quantum electronics and lasers at the California Institute of Technology, has been chosen as the first recipient of the ...