logo
episode-header-image
Sep 2010
26m 30s

Richard Feynman, Physicist

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Brian Cox presents a tribute to Richard Feynman, widely regarded as the most influential physicist since Einstein.

Up next
Mar 23
Superbugs: Resistance Rising Part 1
The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives - and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon.In this three part series for Discovery, reporter Roland Pease traces how we reached this point, uncovers the forces driving resistance ever faster, and ... Show More
29m 33s
Mar 16
The Life Scientific: Jehane Ragai
Ever heard of the unsuccessful Dutch painter who decided to humiliate his critics by forging Vermeers, which the artworld subsequently dubbed 'masterpieces'? Or the businessman who bought a Marc Chagall painting that he displayed with pride for years, before a television investig ... Show More
26m 29s
Mar 9
The Life Scientific: Tony Juniper
Tony Juniper is an environmentalist who has worn many hats, over the course of his career. After developing a passion for birds in childhood, his first job saw him working to save endangered parrots - including a successful effort to bring back the Spix's macaw from the edge of e ... Show More
26m 29s
Recommended Episodes
Nov 2024
UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Richard Feynman
In this episode, Rick connects with the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman. Known for his groundbreaking contributions to quantum mechanics, Feynman’s work inspires curiosity and innovation in science. ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https:// ... Show More
49m 7s
Sep 2019
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Freeman Dyson interviewed by Graham Farmelo
Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Freeman Dyson. Freeman Dyson talks about his being both a theoretical physicist and a mathematician, the troubled relationship between mathematics and physics in his youth, the impressive physicist he knew (no, it’s not Feynman) ... Show More
15m 17s
Mar 2024
268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell argued that light was a wave of electric and magnetic fields. But it took over four decades for physicists to put together the theory of special relativity, which correctly describes the symmetries underlying Maxwell's theory. The delay came in p ... Show More
1h 30m
May 2024
Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory
Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare mathematical essence of our most profound theories, explaining every step in a uniquely accessible ... Show More
1h 15m
Jan 2019
#1233 - Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox is an English physicist and Professor of Particle Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester in the UK. Tickets for Brian Cox Universal Adventures In Space & Time available at: US & CANADA: https://profbriancoxlive.com Rest ... Show More
2h 38m
Jul 2024
The Smallest Ideas in the Universe with Sean Carroll
<p>What is the nature of quantum physics? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice get quantum, exploring Schrodinger’s Cat, electrons, Hilbert Space, and the biggest ideas in the universe (in the smallest particles) with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll. </p><p>NOTE: StarTa ... Show More
46m 26s
Apr 2025
#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
<p>Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “<a href="https://amzn.to/43ELe ... Show More
1h 20m
Oct 2024
486. The Intersection of Science and Meaning | Dr. Brian Greene
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with physicist and author, Dr. Brian Greene. They discuss the strange conceptualization of “before” the Big Bang, how time might be a microscopic phenomenon, how order existed at the point of the universe's creation, what would happen if you fell ... Show More
1h 33m
Oct 2019
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Simon Donaldson interviewed by Graham Farmelo
The discoveries the Simon Donaldson made in the early 1980s about four-dimensional spaces 'stunned the mathematical world', his research adviser Michael Atiyah later recalled. Donaldson was using the physicists' theory of particle interactions to study space itself – with truly r ... Show More
16m 3s
Oct 2023
Albert Einstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to change the world of physics and whose name went on to become a byword for genius. This was Albert Einstein, then still a technical expert at a Swiss patent office, and that year of 1905 bec ... Show More
49m 29s