History and Archives

Feynman Celebration Exhibit, April to June 2014

An exhibit on Richard P. Feynman will run in the atrium of Fermilab's Wilson Hall from April 12 until June 26, 2014 as part of Fermilab's Feynman celebration. The exhibit was organized by the Fermilab Office of Communication and the Fermilab History and Archives Project. This page contains a list of all the items in the exhibit, digital images of many of the items, and information about additional resources on Feynman. More information on the Feynman celebration is available in this March 18, 2014 Fermilab press release.

The Exhibit

• First published Feynman diagram (1949)
• The Feynman lectures on physics (1963)
• The Village Crier, vol. 5, no.2 (January 11, 1973)
• Feynman at NAL (December 8-9, 1972)
• CERN Courier, vol. 28, no. 3 (April 1988)
• Feynman Computing Center dedication program (December 2, 1988)
• News release on Feynman Computing Center dedication (December 5, 1988)
• FermiNews, vol. XI, no. 22 (December 16, 1988)
• Leon Lederman speaking at the Feynman Computing Center dedication (December 2, 1988)
• Fermilab's Feynman Computing Center (2007)
• Physics Today, vol. 42, no. 2 (February 1989)
• Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey (1991)
• Stamps from the Tuvan People's Republic (1927)
• Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (1997)

Additional Resources

Materials by Feynman in the Fermilab Library (this is only a small selection of the materials available):

• Richard Phillips Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands. The Feynman Lectures on Physics. 3 volumes. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1963. (Fermilab library location: Main. Call number: QC23.F438)
• Richard Phillips Feynman and Ralph Leighton. 'Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!' : adventures of a curious character. New York: W.W. Norton, 1985. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49A82::1985)
• Richard Phillips Feynman and Ralph Leighton. 'What do YOU care what other people think?' : further adventures of a curious character. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49A3::1988)
• Richard Phillips Feynman. 'Most of the good stuff' : memories of Richard Feynman. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49A3::1993)
• Richard Phillips Feynman and Anthony J. G. Hey. Feynman lectures on computation. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 1999. (Fermilab library location: Main. Call number: QA76.F45::1999)
• Laurie M. Brown and Richard Phillips Feynman. Selected papers of Richard Feynman : with commentary. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 2000. (Fermilab library location: Main. Call number: QC3.F4513::2000)
• Richard Phillips Feynman. The Feynman Lectures on Physics [sound recording]. 20 volumes. New York: Basic Books, 2003. (Fermilab library location: DVD/AV. Call number for volume 1: QC23.F4382::2003)
• Richard Phillips Feynman. Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the letters of Richard P. Feynman. New York: Basic Books, 2005. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49A4::2005)

Materials on Feynman in the Fermilab Library:

• Ralph Leighton. Tuva or bust! : Richard Feynman's last journey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49L45::1991)
• James Gleick. Genius : the life and science of Richard Feynman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49G54::1992)
• Richard Phillips Feynman. The best mind since Einstein. Boston: WGBH Boston Video, 2006. [Originally broadcast on the Nova television program in 1993] (Fermilab library location: AV-West. Call number: QC16.F49B478::2006)
• Jagdish Mehra. The beat of a different drum : the life and science of Richard Phillips Feynman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49M45::1994)
• John R. Gribbin and Mary Gribbin. Richard Feynman : a life in science. New York: Dutton, 1997. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49G75::1997)
• Lawrence Maxwell Krauss. Quantum man: Richard Feynman's life in science. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. (Fermilab library location: Popular. Call number: QC16.F49K73::2011)

A variety of documentaries on Feynman are available:

• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Horizon. Original airdate: March 27, 1988. More information is available at the BBC website.
• The Last Journey of a Genius. NOVA. Original airdate: January 24, 1989. A summary is available at the PBS website.