March Scientist of the Month: Richard Feynman

That's Dick Fine-Man to you, because Dick Feynman was a very fine man indeed.

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Feynman grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. He loved science more than anything, especially if science could help him play jokes on his friends. Never in a mean way, Ms. Miller means. Feynman was all about fun!

As a kid he spent most of his free time taking radios apart and making up new ways to do math. In college Feynman's pranks got bigger. There, he studied physics, the science of how things on Earth move, so he could make explosions and fake trap doors in his house.

Later Feynman wrote a lot of papers about electricity. They were so smart that they won the Nobel Prize, the biggest award in the entire world. He taught science to people all over the world in a new and silly way that made him very famous. He played the bongos, painted, and made a point to tell anyone who didn't like his ideas that he didn't care what they thought as long as he liked himself. And that made everyone who knew him think he was pretty cool.

When you're older you can read about all the amazing stuff Dick Feynman did for science. For now watch this easy YouTube water experiment Dick Feynman once did in college to impress a girl:

Flipping Water Video (YouTube)