Feynman would also appear in DC comics Action Comics #4 written by Grant Morrison. This special one shot would be written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Myrick. In 2011 Feynman would star in a biographical graphic novel Feynman #1 presenting the scientist's personality, history and idiosyncrasies. In this story the Manhattan Project is just a gateway into more bizarre and secretive scientific objectives. The Image Comics published comic presents an exaggerated alternative reality presentation on the lives of many of the scientists and figures involved with the real life Manhattan Project, with Feynman being grouped with the Super genius characters. Richard Feynman appears as a reoccurring character in The Manhattan Projects comic series written by Jonathan Hickman. Feyman would also often talk candidly about his trails and tribulations, his feelings about being involved in the creation and use of atomic bombs helping further chisel out his legacy. Stories and news reports about Feynman's experiences with drugs and strip clubs also going some way to endear the scientist to the mainstream. Cultural Impactįeynman's roles in the Manhattan Project and Challenger disaster as well as his personality traits launched him into a popular and well liked personality in the science community. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? and has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries and even a play QED. Feynman has published two semi autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman would marry three times, the first time losing his wife to tuberculosis, the second would be brief and end in divorce, and the third would last until his death on February 15, 1988. Often described as a larger than life figure, the physicist and professor would be a popularizer of physics and appear often in documentaries and ventures designed to increase appreciation and awareness of physics. Famous and noted theoretical physicist Richard Phillips Feynman was born on May 11 in 1918, in Manhattan, New York.

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