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== Works == === Selected scientific works === * {{cite book|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics|year=1942|series=PhD Dissertation, Princeton University|publisher=World Scientific (with title "Feynman's Thesis: a New Approach to Quantum Theory")|publication-date=2005|editor=Laurie M. Brown|isbn=978-981-256-380-4|url=https://archive.org/details/feynmansthesisne00feyn_0|ref=none}} * {{cite journal|author1-link=John A. Wheeler|first1=John A.|last1=Wheeler|first2=Richard P.|last2=Feynman|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/11095/|title=Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation|journal=[[Reviews of Modern Physics]]|volume=17|pages=157β181|year=1945|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.17.157|bibcode=1945RvMP...17..157W|issue=2β3|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=April 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417074134/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/11095/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite book|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|osti=4341197|title=A Theorem and its Application to Finite Tampers|publisher=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]], [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]]|year=1946|doi=10.2172/4341197|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1016199/|ref=none}} * {{cite book|first1=Richard P.|last1=Feynman|author2-link=Thomas A. Welton|first2=T. A.|last2= Welton|osti=4381097|title=Neutron Diffusion in a Space Lattice of Fissionable and Absorbing Materials|publisher=Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission|year=1946|doi=10.2172/4381097|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1018687/|ref=none}} * {{cite book|first1=Richard P.|last1=Feynman|author2-link=Nicholas Metropolis|last2=Metropolis|first2= N.|author3-link=Edward Teller|first3=E.|last3= Teller|osti=4417654|title=Equations of State of Elements Based on the Generalized Fermi-Thomas Theory|publisher=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]], Atomic Energy Commission|year=1947|doi=10.2172/4417654|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3519/1/FEYpr49a.pdf|ref=none}} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=Space-time approach to non-relativistic quantum mechanics|journal=[[Reviews of Modern Physics]]|volume=20|pages=367β387|year=1948|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.20.367|bibcode=1948RvMP...20..367F|issue=2|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/47756/|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917091657/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/47756/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal |last=Feynman |first=Richard P. |title=A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics |journal=Physical Review |volume=74 |issue=8 |pages=939β946 |year=1948 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.74.939 |bibcode=1948PhRv...74..939F |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3516/ |ref=none |access-date=May 20, 2019 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919084455/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3516/ |url-status=dead }} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics|journal=Physical Review|volume=74|pages=1430β1438|year=1948|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.74.1430|bibcode=1948PhRv...74.1430F|issue=10|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3517/|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919121911/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3517/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal|author1-link=John A. Wheeler|first1=John A.|last1=Wheeler|first2=Richard P.|last2= Feynman|title= Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of Direct Interparticle Action|journal= Reviews of Modern Physics|volume= 21|pages=425β433|year=1949|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.21.425|bibcode = 1949RvMP...21..425W|issue=3 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1062647/files/RevModPhys.21.425.pdf|ref=none|doi-access=free}} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=The theory of positrons|journal=Physical Review|volume=76|pages=749β759|year=1949|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.76.749|bibcode=1949PhRv...76..749F|issue=6|s2cid=120117564|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3520/|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=August 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809030941/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3520/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamic|journal=Physical Review|volume=76|pages=769β789|year=1949|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.76.769|bibcode=1949PhRv...76..769F|issue=6|doi-access=free|ref=none}} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction|journal=Physical Review|volume=80|pages=440β457|year=1950|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.80.440|bibcode=1950PhRv...80..440F|issue=3|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3528/|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=September 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914231627/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3528/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=An Operator Calculus Having Applications in Quantum Electrodynamics|journal=Physical Review|volume=84|issue=1|pages=108β128|year=1951|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.84.108|bibcode=1951PhRv...84..108F|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3530/|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=September 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915070057/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3530/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|title=The Ξ»-Transition in Liquid Helium|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3536/|journal=Physical Review|volume=90|pages=1116β1117|year=1953|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.90.1116.2|bibcode=1953PhRv...90.1116F|issue=6|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917202229/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3536/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite book|first1=Richard P.|last1=Feynman|author2-link=Frederic de Hoffmann|last2=de Hoffmann|first2= F.|author3-link=Robert Serber|last3=Serber|first3=R.|osti=4354998|title=Dispersion of the Neutron Emission in U235 Fission|publisher=Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission|year=1955|doi=10.2172/4354998|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1026050/|ref=none}} * {{cite journal|pmid = 17774518|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|publication-date=February 24, 1956|year=1956|title=Science and the Open Channel |volume=123|issue=3191|periodical=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|page=307|doi = 10.1126/science.123.3191.307|bibcode = 1956Sci...123..307F |doi-access=|ref=none}} * {{cite journal|first1=M.|last1=Cohen|first2=Richard P.|last2=Feynman|title=Theory of Inelastic Scattering of Cold Neutrons from Liquid Helium|journal=Physical Review|volume=107|issue=1|pages=13β24|year=1957|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.107.13|bibcode=1957PhRv..107...13C|url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/6093/|ref=none|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=September 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914191032/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/6093/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal |first1=Richard P. |last1=Feynman |first2=F. L. |last2=Vernon |first3=R. W. |last3=Hellwarth |title=Geometric representation of the SchrΓΆdinger equation for solving maser equations |journal=Journal of Applied Physics |year=1957 |doi=10.1063/1.1722572 |volume=28 |issue=1 |page=49 |bibcode=1957JAP....28...49F |url=https://www.chem.uci.edu/~unicorn/249/Handouts/FeynmanPaper.pdf |ref=none}} * {{cite journal|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|url=https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1976/|title=There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom|journal=Engineering and Science |year=1960|volume=23 |issue=5 |pages=22β36 |ref=none}} * {{cite journal|pmid = 13889186|last1=Edgar|first1=R. S.|last2=Feynman|first2=Richard P.|last3=Klein|first3=S.|last4=Lielausis|first4=I. |publication-date=February 1962|year=1962|title=Mapping experiments with r mutants of bacteriophage T4D |volume=47|periodical=[[Genetics (journal)|Genetics]]|pages=179β86|last5 = Steinberg|first5 = C. M. |pmc = 1210321|issue = 2|doi=10.1093/genetics/47.2.179|ref=none}} * {{cite journal |last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|url=https://profizgl.lu.lv/pluginfile.php/32795/mod_resource/content/0/WHAT_IS_SCIENCE_by_R.Feynman_1966.pdf |access-date=June 10, 2023 |title=What is Science? |orig-date=1966 |journal=The Physics Teacher |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages=313β320|date=1968 |doi=10.1119/1.2351388|bibcode=1969PhTea...7..313F |ref=none}} Lecture presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, 1966 in New York City. * {{cite journal|pmid = 17791121|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|publication-date=August 12, 1966|year=1966 |title=The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics |volume=153|issue=3737|periodical=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|pages=699β708|doi = 10.1126/science.153.3737.699|bibcode = 1966Sci...153..699F |ref=none}} * {{cite journal|pmid = 17778830|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|publication-date=February 15, 1974|year=1974a|title=Structure of the proton |volume=183|issue=4125|periodical=Science|pages=601β610|doi = 10.1126/science.183.4125.601|bibcode = 1974Sci...183..601F |jstor=1737688|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|s2cid=9938227|ref=none}} * {{cite journal| url=https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/02/CargoCult.pdf|title = Cargo Cult Science| last = Feynman |first=Richard P. |journal= Engineering and Science|volume=37|issue=7| year= 1974|ref=none}} * {{cite journal|pmid = 9897894|last1=Feynman|first1=Richard P.|last2=Kleinert|first2=Hagen|author2-link=Hagen Kleinert|publication-date=December 1986|year=1986|title=Effective classical partition functions|volume=34|issue=6|periodical=Physical Review A|pages=5080β5084|doi = 10.1103/PhysRevA.34.5080|bibcode = 1986PhRvA..34.5080F |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3553/1/FEYpra86.pdf|ref=none}} * {{cite book |last=Feynman |first=Richard P. |url=https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm |title=Rogers Commission Report, Volume 2 Appendix F β Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle |year=1986 |publisher=[[NASA]] |ref=none}} * {{citation |last=Feynman |first=Richard P. |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814390187_0003 |chapter=Difficulties in Applying the Variational Principle to Quantum Field Theories |title=Variational Calculations in Quantum Field Theory |year=1988 |editor=Polley |editor-first=L. |publisher=[[World Scientific]] |language=en |isbn=9971-50-500-2 |pages=28β40 |doi=10.1142/9789814390187_0003 |publication-date=August 1, 1988 |ref=none |editor2-last=Pottinger |editor2-first=D. E. L.}} Proceedings of the International Workshop at Wangerooge Island, Germany; Sept 1β4, 1987. * {{cite book|title=Selected Papers of Richard Feynman: With Commentary|url=https://archive.org/details/selectedpapersof0000feyn|url-access=registration|first=Richard P.|last=Feynman|editor=Laurie M. Brown|editor-link=Laurie Brown (physicist)|publisher= World Scientific|series=20th Century Physics|year= 2000|isbn=978-981-02-4131-5|ref=none}} === Textbooks and lecture notes === [[File:The Feynman Lectures on Physics.jpg|thumb|alt=A box set of several slim red books|''The Feynman Lectures on Physics'' including Feynman's ''Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition'' (2nd edition, 2005)]] ''The Feynman Lectures on Physics'' is perhaps his most accessible work for anyone with an interest in physics, compiled from lectures to [[Caltech]] undergraduates in 1961β1964. As news of the lectures' lucidity grew, professional physicists and graduate students began to drop in to listen. Co-authors [[Robert B. Leighton]] and Matthew Sands, colleagues of Feynman, edited and illustrated them into book form. The work has endured and is useful to this day. {{anchor|Feynman's Tips}} They were edited and supplemented in 2005 with ''Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics'' by Michael Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton (Robert Leighton's son), with support from [[Kip Thorne]] and other physicists. * {{cite book |last1=Feynman |first1=Richard P. |last2=Leighton |first2=Robert B. |last3=Sands |first3=Matthew |title=The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition |orig-year=1970 |year=2005 |publisher=Addison Wesley |edition=2nd |isbn=0-8053-9045-6 |ref=none}} Includes ''Feynman's Tips on Physics'' (with Michael Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton), which includes four previously unreleased lectures on problem solving, exercises by Robert Leighton and [[Rochus Eugen Vogt|Rochus Vogt]], and a historical essay by Matthew Sands. Three volumes; originally published as separate volumes in 1964 and 1966. * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=Theory of Fundamental Processes|publisher= Addison Wesley|year= 1961|isbn= 0-8053-2507-7|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=Quantum Electrodynamics|publisher= Addison Wesley|year= 1962|isbn= 978-0-8053-2501-0|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last1=Feynman|first1=Richard P.|first2=Albert|last2=Hibbs|title=Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals|publisher=McGraw Hill|year=1965|isbn=0-07-020650-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/quantummechanics0000feyn|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=The Character of Physical Law: The 1964 Messenger Lectures|publisher=MIT Press|year=1967|isbn=0-262-56003-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/characterofphysi0000feyn_u5j3|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=Statistical Mechanics: A Set of Lectures|url=https://archive.org/details/statisticalmecha00rich|url-access=registration|publisher=[[W. A. Benjamin]]|year= 1972|place=Reading, Mass|isbn=0-8053-2509-3|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=Photon-Hadron interactions|url=https://archive.org/details/photonhadroninte0000feyn/mode/2up|publisher=[[W. A. Benjamin]]|year= 1972|place=Reading, Mass|isbn=0201360748|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter|publisher= [[Princeton University Press]]|year=1985b|isbn= 0-691-02417-0|title-link=QED (book)|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures|url=https://archive.org/details/elementarypartic0000feyn|url-access=registration|publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]]|year= 1987|isbn=0-521-34000-4|ref=none}} * {{cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard P.|title=Lectures on Gravitation|url=https://archive.org/details/feynmanlectureso0000feyn_g4q1|url-access=registration|editor=Brian Hatfield|publisher= Addison Wesley Longman|year= 1995|isbn= 0-201-62734-5|ref=none}} * {{cite book |last=Feynman |first=Richard P. |title=Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun |year=1997 |edition=Vintage Press |isbn=0-09-973621-7 |publisher=Vintage |location=London, England |language=en |title-link=Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun |ref=none}} * {{cite book |last=Feynman |first=Richard P. |title=Feynman Lectures on Computation |editor=Hey |editor-first=Tony |editor-link=Tony Hey |language=en-us |publisher=Perseus Books Group |year=2000 |isbn=0-7382-0296-7 |ref=none |editor-last2=Allen |editor-first2=Robin W. |quote="Computer science also differs from physics in that it is not actually a science. It does not study natural objects. Neither is it, as you might think, mathematics; although it does use mathematical reasoning pretty extensively. Rather, computer science is like engineering β it is all about getting something to do something, rather than just dealing with abstractions"}}. === Popular works === * {{cite book |first=Richard P. |last=Feynman |title=Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character |editor=Leighton |editor-first=Ralph |language=en-us |publisher=[[W. W. Norton]] & Company |year=1985 |isbn=0-393-01921-7 |oclc=10925248}} * {{cite book |first=Richard P. |last=Feynman |title=What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character |editor=Leighton |editor-first=Ralph |language=en-us |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=1988a |isbn=0-393-02659-0}} * ''No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman'', ed. Christopher Sykes, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996, {{ISBN|0-393-31393-X}}. * ''Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher'', Perseus Books, 1994, {{ISBN|0-201-40955-0}}. Listed by the board of directors of the [[Modern Library]] as one of the 100 best nonfiction books.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/ |title=100 Best Nonfiction |publisher=Modern Library |access-date=November 12, 2016 |archive-date=August 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825211346/http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/ |url-status=live}}</ref> * ''Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time'', Addison Wesley, 1997, {{ISBN|0-201-15026-3}}. * {{cite book |first=Richard P. |last=Feynman |title=The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist |publisher=Perseus Publishing |year=1998 |location=Reading, Massachusetts |isbn=0-7382-0166-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/meaningofitallth0000feyn |ref=none}} * {{cite book |first=Richard P. |last=Feynman |title=The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman |url=https://archive.org/details/pleasureoffindin00feyn |url-access=registration |editor-first=Jeffrey |editor-last=Robbins |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Perseus Books |year=1999 |isbn=0-7382-0108-1}} * ''Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character'', edited by Ralph Leighton, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005, {{ISBN|0-393-06132-9}}. Chronologically reordered omnibus volume of ''[[Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!]]'' and ''What Do You Care What Other People Think?'', with a bundled CD containing one of Feynman's signature lectures. === Audio and video recordings === * ''Safecracker Suite'' (a collection of drum pieces interspersed with Feynman telling anecdotes) * ''Los Alamos From Below'' (audio, talk given by Feynman at Santa Barbara on February 6, 1975) * ''The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Complete Audio Collection,'' selections from which were also released as ''Six Easy Pieces'' and ''Six Not So Easy Pieces'' * The [[Messenger Lectures]] ([https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.html link]), given at Cornell in 1964, in which he explains basic topics in physics;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.html |title=Feynman's Messenger Lectures |access-date=July 23, 2022 |year=2021 |website=feynmanlectures.caltech.edu}}</ref> they were also adapted into the book ''[[The Character of Physical Law]]'' * [http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures], four public lectures of which the four chapters of the book ''[[QED (book)|QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter]]'' are transcripts. (1979) * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018dvyg The Pleasure of Finding Things Out], ''BBC Horizon'' episode (1981) (not to be confused with the later published book of the same title) * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/richard-feynman/z6bhd6f Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine Collection], BBC Archive of six short films of Feynman talking in a style that is accessible to all about the physics behind common to all experiences. (1983) * ''Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics'', from the 1986 [[Dirac]] Memorial Lectures (video, 1986) * ''Tiny Machines: The Feynman Talk on Nanotechnology'' (video, 1984) * ''Computers From the Inside Out'' (video) * Quantum Mechanical View of Reality: Workshop at Esalen (video, 1983) * Idiosyncratic Thinking Workshop (video, 1985) * Bits and PiecesβFrom ''Richard's Life and Times'' (video, 1988) * Strangeness Minus Three (video, ''BBC Horizon'' 1964) * ''No Ordinary Genius'' (video, Cristopher Sykes Documentary) * Four [[List of Nova episodes|NOVA episodes]] are made about or with him. (TV program, 1975, 1983, 1989, 1993) * ''The Motion of Planets Around the Sun'' (audio, sometimes titled "Feynman's Lost Lecture") * Nature of Matter (audio)
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