the pleasure of Feynman

Posting the James Lovelock interview earlier reminded me of a favourite video; Richard Feynman on The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Feynman was a physicist who had worked on developing the atomic bomb, and on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. In 1965 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. He was a captivating lecturer and I can see how in this programme. As you can see in this clip, he also liked to draw portraits.

It's the first part of a five-part video of an original broadcast in 1981 by BBC Horizon (about 50 minutes altogether). Follow the link to YouTube, it's worth watching the whole programme.