Left: Feynman on the day of his Graduation from Princeton University (1942)

The Feynman Essays

Richard Feynman’s First Lecture

“I went through fire on my first.”

While still a graduate student at Princeton University in 1940, Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) gave his first lecture in a seminar on electrodynamics, the topic that would eventually earn him the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics. In front of a prestigious audience consisting of Nobel laureates Albert…