Nobel prize winner 1965. Prof. Richard Feynman Bo Arrhed/Alamy
I have been reading Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, a bite-size collection of anecdotes from the brilliant and eccentric physicist Richard Feynman (pictured). I was reminded of it while watching Oppenheimer, as he was also part of the Manhattan Project.
Stuck in a desert with not enough to occupy his amazing mind, Feynman took to cracking safes full of nuclear secrets. He would snaffle classified reports and return them later, or leave cheeky notes inside. Security must have loved him. But his compulsion to understand absolutely everything is infectious.
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