Feynman, quantum electrodynamics, the fine art of the bongo drums, the outrageously obscure nation of Tuva, or the development and popularization of the field of physics in the United States need look no further than this rich and joyful work. Ottaviani tackles the bad with the good, leaving the reader delighted by Feynman's exuberant life and staggered at the loss humanity suffered with his death.Īnyone who ever wanted to know more about Richard P. In this substantial graphic novel biography, Feynman presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum.

Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. Diagrams, which look like squiggly line drawings, as a motif throughout the book so that science meets art to. Somewhere around two years ago, I ran into a video clip in which a brilliant physicist. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Ottaviani and Myrick use his famous Feynman.

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