The comic published by Editorial Standard is written by Jim Ottaviani and drawn by Leland myrick and has as a title Feynman, It's the first graphic biography about the fascinating and exciting life of Richard P. Feynman, the second most influential and important physicist of the twentieth century after Einstein. The comic includes 272 color pages and is a very complete biography that extends from his childhood on Long Island to his participation in the Manhattan Project, obtaining the Nobel Prize in physics for his theories on quantum electrodynamics and the research commission of the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger. It also shows aspects of his personal life such as his three marriages or his fight against cancer from which he did not win.
This graphic novel also reviews the time when Feynman He received the Nobel Prize in physics thanks to his discoveries in the field of quantum electrodynamics and in which I work the famous diagrams that show in a visual way the interactions between particles. Although in the book what can be found is Feynman's passion for physics and especially his objective of making it simple and understandable for everyone performing a work of dissemination that transcends its time. Thus, reading the book ensures arousing interest and curiosity about physics and discovering the emotion of trying to understand and explain reality.
The comic is very well drawn and topped by Myrick and has content that responds to fantastic documentation made by Ottaviani.
A few weeks ago we talked about how we had seen Victor Calvo-Sotelo who remembered Richard Feynman and how his father explained to him since he was little why things happened, how things work and especially to reason without memorizing. And indeed, those episodes appear in the comic and probably marked their interest in curiosity and the search for explanations.
Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics and worked on Feynman's diagrams, which are a graphic form of calculation and understanding to explain the interactions of atomic particles in space and time. further he taught his students with physical passion generating important educational works that can still be found, I think I ever studied with them, and they are fascinating because they are real transcripts of how he did his classes. Many of his students became important personalities in physics so his work generated enough successors.
And the book tells very funny anecdotes of Feynman that probably have to do with how he organized his life and his learning. And it is that Feynman played the drum, opened safes, was fond of bars in which to find girls in top-less and many more adventures that surely complemented his passion for work and the study of physics.
For those who want to see it in dissemination work, simple, leisurely, relaxed and making things easy as seemingly complicated as physics, here is a video on YouTube, in English with subtitles, from the BBC:
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