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Awful title, but the video is actually quite good. It explores how Feynman - at least in the popular imagination - is more famous for being Feynman than for his actually contributions to physics.

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He was really good at marketing himself.

And explaining complex things in simple terms. And thinking of the big picture. And teaching. And… physics.

Yes, no doubt. He was also a true patriot, serving his country on the Manhattan Project and on the Challenger investigation.

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