I put this on a previous post:
but alas I suspect some people have never heard of him.
Feynman was a Nobel prize winner and famous teacher, but most Americans became aware of him when he debunked the NASA coverup of the Challenger disaster: and did it in a way that anyone, including those without a scientific background, could understand what he was talking about:
This movie is about that story: He was chosen by the team players in the government mainly because he was an iconoclast, and they knew they would not be able to get the true story out.
but you know, I first learned about Feynman in this PBS program, about Tuva: a small Siberian country best know for it's throat singing.
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