Feynman (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2011; vuoden 2013 painos)

This was an incredibly fun biography of arguably the biggest personality in physics. Feynman the joker; Feynman the sage; Feynman the lover... Feynman the man.

Failings, successes, ideas, the man's life is well-covered in an engaging, interesting way. The writing is accessible, although I must note that you will get some science. You won't have to parse any equations (though you'll see some), but you will be exposed to some philosophical and scientific concepts that aren't... light-weight. But with visuals!

Anyway, this was one of the most engaging biographies that I've ever read and I am supremely happy that it turned up (I hadn't even been looking for anything like it). A graphic novel biography of a physicist! Huh.

If you find this, open to the first scene, titled "Some Fool Physicist" (just before the scene with the Tyrannosaurus Rex crashing through the little boy's bedroom wall) and give it a read. Just a few pages of comic book. For me, those first few pages hooked me into Feynman's life's adventure. ( )

A great biography from Feynman's point of view, totally readable, mostly not alienating to those who are science-illiterate, and I loved the art. ( )

A comic-book biography of Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman?! It's an idea quirky enough to have pleased the man himself, I think. It's a great way of finding out about a great scientist without risk of ever getting bored and would make a fine first book about the man for someone unfamiliar with his life and work.

For Feynman fanatics, and I suppose I must be one, it offers less; most of the material here is taken from the widely available published books by and about the man. If you've read them, very little here will be unfamiliar. Those parts that were new to me were dug up from the CalTech archives. One wonders how much more there can be that hasn't made it to a format that is readily publicly accessible? ( )

An interesting portrait of a fascinating character. I enjoyed learning more about Richard Feynman - from his early life to his involvement in the Manhattan Project, Quantum Physics, and the Challenger investigation, and I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Feynman or physics. ( )

Feynman was one of the greatest scientists ever. But he was quite the character as well. His musing of safe cracking and joke playing are quite entertaining. This book gets into his personal life and his family as well. Not to mention the graphic novel and beautiful drawings. ( )