This is a biography of the amazing Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist & all round interesting character. Beginning in childhood, Feynman was encouraged to observe, analyze, and experiment on things that he found interesting (with his encouragement, his younger sister also became a physicist). After high school he was admitted to MIT because Columbia had already filled it's "Jewish Quota" for the year. He worked on the Manhattan Project, became a professor at CalTech and other prestigious Universities, wrote a series of lectures and books to make physics more easily understandable to the non-scientist, and travelled the world lecturing and exploring. His unorthodox way of using pictures to explain the theoretical formulas others physicists created helped him to earn a joint Nobel Prize with two others. This graphic novel does a great job of portraying the life and ideas of this quirky scientist.
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