Richard Feynman > You

October 6th, 2007 · 12:09 am  →  Blog

I don’t think there’s anyone who knows even the slightest bit about Richard Feynman who isn’t in awe not only at the guy’s sheer brilliance, but the crazy antics that he is said to have partook in.

Case in point: Feynman was one of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project (responsible for producing the atomic bomb), and to amuse himself, he tried his luck at cracking combination locks. He eventually found his way into some locked file cabinets with (probably classified) atomic bomb research. As a prank, Feynman proceeded to leave notes in these cabinets, causing the other scientists to suspect that a spy had infiltrated their top-secret research. [The "irony," of course, being that many of the scientists in the Manhattan Project were indeed Soviet sympathizers]

Also under the “antics” column, Feynman, like Einstein, was a prominent womanizer.

It is probably impossible to sum up all of Feynman’s sheer awesomeness in a single graph, but hey, I’m a consultant, so I’m going to try (or at least look online to find someone else who’s already tried it and steal it from them):