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[[File:feynmandrums.jpg|frame|left|"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics."]]
{{quote|''"If that's the world's smartest man, God help us."''|'''Lucille Feynman''', on ''[[Omni]]'' magazine naming her son the world's smartest man.}}
Drummer, lockpicker, artist, teacher, and raconteur... who also won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. [[Richard Feynman]] was considered one of the greatest scientific minds since [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]. Even more than his contributions to science (which are numerous and varied), though, he is best remembered today as a ''personality,'' an irreverent, skeptical, iconoclastic embodiment of what a real scientist ought to be.
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