RICHARD FEYNMAN

‘Feynman’ is a graphic novel biography written by Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick and centred on the theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman’s extraordinary life. Widely known for his iconoclastic approach to the laws of physics and to teaching, Feynman is a dominating figure among those scientists who tried and (rarely) succeeded with a more educational path — for us, among the positive examples are Hawking, Thorne and especially Rovelli. The book is irresistible, as was Feynman’s existence, and its pages need to be devoured rapidly leaving both a taste of sorrow and happiness in the reader’s mind: beautiful thoughts, from one of those minds that could never be bettered, even if it was technically possible. From the Manhattan Project to the Challenger investigation, from his stint into Brazilian music to his family sufferings, here is the man: get to know him, get to know physics, get to think beautiful.