Feynman lecturing, with six chalkboards full of equations, diagrams and notes. CalTech? Feynman would have been 100 years old on May 11, 2018. This became the “lost lecture,” now found; photo may be March 13, 1964.
How to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Feynman?
Here’s what others say and do.
His popular books shattered readers’ preconceptions of scientists as lab-coated nerds and replaced them with a hipper image of a wild non-conformist; his scholarly tomes introduced researchers to revolutionary methods of grappling with modern physics. https://t.co/8nMYbsnfFy
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) May 8, 2018
Paul Halpern wrote a recent book on Feynma
Richard Feynman at 100: Celebrating the life and work of the brilliant, unconventional scientist: https://t.co/CyFTmTAQQH #FeynmanCentenary #FeynmanAt100 #Feynman100 #RichardFeynman #Feynman #histSTM #histsci #histphys pic.twitter.com/e0iRWPulOH
— Paul Halpern (@phalpern) May 9, 2018
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of genius physicist Richard Feynman with a book about his extraordinary contributions to quantum physics that led to a Nobel Prize: https://t.co/3iEXWji4R4 #FeynmanCentenary #Feynman100 #Feynman #RichardFeynman pic.twitter.com/JulIOlCWql
— Paul Halpern (@phalpern) May 7, 2018
Richard Feynman was one of the last great physicist celebrities, universally acknowledged as a genius who stood out even from other geniuses. https://t.co/jsWlIuqSIm
— Science News (@ScienceNews) May 9, 2018
Tribute to R. Feynman (celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth). Part 1.#Feynman100 #Feynman #FeynmanCentenary #RichardFeynman pic.twitter.com/bQwFB9Yhh3
— Juan J. Ruiz-Lorenzo (@JJRuizLorenzo) May 7, 2018
Feynman was a curious character. In his autobiography, he revealed that he spent a lot of time analyzing ant trails. https://t.co/AQzOoJ1yK8
— Sean X. Zhang, J.D., Ph.D. (@iplaw_zhang) May 10, 2018
#DidYouKnow? Feynman was also a best-selling author. His books include not only his famous “Lectures on Physics” but "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and “Six Not-So-Easy Pieces.” #Feynman100 #CaltechDYK pic.twitter.com/Gk1h89N1KO
— Caltech (@Caltech) May 10, 2018
There are those who look critically at Feynman’s life, and recognize his flaws — as Feynman did, too. This is an interesting thread.
Richard Feynman, whose 100th birthday is on May 11th, was a brilliant scientist who was a more complicated man than what his self-generated anecdotes made him appear. I encountered him as a teenager, and my own views changed over time. https://t.co/JmRwdXc2BY
— Ash Jogalekar (@curiouswavefn) May 9, 2018
Aside from developing the most precisely tested theory in science history & winning a Nobel prize for it, Richard Feynman also liked to draw & would frequent strip clubs to work on his physics problems: work notes like this were discovered after he died https://t.co/ubgKEUbMcB pic.twitter.com/9YuDrxoGDS
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 8, 2018
Happy 100th Birthday Mr. #Feynman ! Although he passed away his #lectures, #humor, and amazing contributions to #physics are not forgotten! #feynman100 #richardfeynman #science #scientist #educator #scienceteacher #research #inspirational #Feynmanweek #qns #물리학 #과학 #연구 pic.twitter.com/TuqmOBfYxg
— QNS (@QNSorg) May 10, 2018
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself." pic.twitter.com/ey9xyLIHuF
— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) May 8, 2018
The Feynman Point is the sequence of six 9s which begins at the 762nd decimal place of π pic.twitter.com/BwD4Vjohrb
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) May 9, 2018
Richard Feynman: Physics with a human face (My obituary in New Scientist)… https://t.co/gM4DWssPOv #FeynmanCentenary #FeynmanAt100 #Feynman100 #RichardFeynman #Feynman pic.twitter.com/ThhDnoiRoh
— Marcus Chown (@marcuschown) May 9, 2018
Reading Feynman's 1962 notebooks at the Caltech Archives @CaltechArchives in preparation for my talk at the Feynman 100 celebration on May 11 – 12. "How Feynman Found Ghosts While Quantizing Gravity" #Feynman100 pic.twitter.com/0M6Mpz2Jrj
— 大栗博司 (@PlanckScale) May 6, 2018
#DidYouKnow Richard Feynman is one of the originators of modern-day string theory? In his lectures on gravitation in the early 1960s, he made some of the first attempts for how to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics—the basis of string theory. #Feynman100 #CaltechDYK pic.twitter.com/g1VJLxQzod
— Caltech (@Caltech) May 9, 2018
Feynman was not a fan of superstring theory (From "Superstrings" by Paul Davies and Julian Brown). pic.twitter.com/MKB04gEWrn
— Ash Jogalekar (@curiouswavefn) May 10, 2018
Falling deeper in love with Richard Feynman… #badassphysicist pic.twitter.com/bMpETaB1Mn
— Maya Chande (@ChandeMaya02) May 9, 2018
One day away from what would be Richard Feynman's 100th birthday. I believe I have the first children's book published that highlights #Feynman. Many more coming. Wherever books are sold. https://t.co/5I78X1IAEH #STEM #Education #Science #Feynman100 pic.twitter.com/973rKLpz2i
— M.J. Mouton (@MJ_Mouton) May 10, 2018
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Thanks for the heads up, Mr. Higginbotham. Will fix as soon as I can.
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Link to first picture at top does not work now. If it is the Science News picture, it is described in
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