Nobel Prize Winners Feynman, Richard

Richard Feynman loved to play the bongos. He also loved solving problems. He figured out the reason for the space shuttle Challenger s 1986 explosion by showing that cold weather caused the rubber seals of the booster rocket to fail. Feynman was one of the twentieth century s great theoretical physicists, a Nobel Prize winner who spent much of his career studying atoms. He knew as much about atoms as anyone in the world, and this is what he said about them in his book Six Easy Pieces ... 

One of my favorite quotations about stars makes a fitting conclusion to this Updates and Breakthroughs Appendix. Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman (1918-1988) wrote in The Feynman Lectures on Physics ... 

Actually, nanotechnology is a combination of existing technologies, and our newfound ability to observe and manipulate on the atomic scale makes nanotechnology highly compelling from the scientific, business and political points of view. This aspect of nanotechnology was already foreseen in a conference presented by Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman in 1959. 

COMMENT. The solution to the problem of the cause of the Challenger disaster was the final achievement, just before his death, of Richard Feynman, a Nobel prize winner in physics and a person who loved to solve problems. He was an outspoken person who abhorred sham, especially in science and technology. Feynman concluded his personal report on the disaster by saying, For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled (James Gleick. Genkjs The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Pantheon Books, New York (1992).)... 

By this stage you may feel that quantum mechanics is not for you. If so, take heart from the Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, who once made the remark I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics". 

Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman had this to say about mathematics To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. .. 

Richard P. Feynman (1918-88), winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics, presented a now-famous talk, titled There s Plenty of Room at the Bottom, at an American Physical Society meeting on December 29, 1959. In challenging scientists to explore miniaturization to its fundamental limits he said ... 

However, some of the students also teach at secondary schools and point out that there are certain aspects of secondary education (and even in some university courses) that still have not adopted modern approaches to teaching. They tend to emphasize the student s ability to reproduce the material that was presented in class or to solve problems selected from lists suggested as exercises rather than stimulate creativity and an ability to think independently. Unfortunately, some of the observations below, made by the physicist Richard Feynman, winner of a Nobel Prize, when he made his first trip to Brazil, are still not completely out of date, even though he came before the 1970s (when modern graduate courses were introduced on a large scale and teaching at a federal university was still a part-time Job). 

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