The Scientist Is Gone, but Not His Book Tour

The Scientist Is Gone, but Not His Book Tour from the NYTimes looks at Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize laureate who, next to Albert Einstein, is one of the world’s most recognizable scientists and one of the few whose written works have consistently made the best-seller lists. Feynman, whose telegenic presence made him a sought-after speaker, was always his own best advertisement. But his death in 1988 made an author tour to promote the new book problematic, at best.

The solution is one that Feynman himself might admire: the “authorless book tour,” a series of panel discussions with scientists, several of them Nobel laureates, who were close to Feynman.

April 8, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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