The Economist (US), February 20th, 1988
THE last day of the AAAs meeting in Boston would have been a sad one if the participants had known that Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate in physics and professor at the California Institute of Technology, had died that day, February 15th, at the age of 69. Feynman was unusually colourful for a physicist. He was almost as well known for his iconoclasm and eccentricities as for his work on quantum electrodynamics, which seeks to explain how electromagnetism works on the tiny scale of elementary particles. A generation of students has grown up familiar with a picture of him playing the bongos. ...
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