Feynman biography movie

Richard Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in , was one of the most interesting men our century has produced. As a very young man, he did theoretical work at Los Alamos on the project to develop an atomic bomb.

In , he gave a speech so famous it is known simply as “Feynman&#;s Talk,” in which he described a new science of nanotechnology&#;the manipulation of very, very small things.

Not only was it possible to write the complete contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a needle, he said, but the contents of every book ever written could be stored in a space the size of a dust mote.

(This speech helped point the way to the tiny microprocessors on silicon chips that made modern computers possible.) Near the end of his life, conducting a simple experiment with a glass of ice water, he solved the mystery of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

He died in

At first I was disappointed that “Infinity,” the new film based on his early years, pays relatively littl