On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

Richard Feynman's most enduring quote was never intended as a memorable slogan. It came from his 1974 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, where the Nobel Prize-winning ...

A foundational postulate of quantum physics has been directly verified by an experiment for the first time. Formulated by Richard Feynman nearly 80 years ago, it has long formed the backbone of much ...

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Kerry J. Vahala, assistant professor of applied physics and a specialist in quantum electronics and lasers at the California Institute of Technology, has been chosen as the first recipient of the ...

A set of handwritten notes left behind by physicist Richard Feynman has been decoded more than 50 years after they were first drafted, revealing an elegant solution to what researchers have dubbed the ...