Richard Feynman was one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century — a Nobel laureate who reinvented quantum electrodynamics and decoded the Challenger disaster. But he was equally famous for picking locks at Los Alamos, playing bongo drums in strip clubs, and turning physics lectures into performances that made the subject irresistible to generations of students.

This episode explores the full Feynman — the scientific revolutionary who developed the path integral formulation and Feynman diagrams, the Manhattan Project safe-cracker, the legendary Caltech teacher, and the iconoclast whose curiosity had no boundaries or pretensions.

• Feynman’s contributions to quantum electrodynamics and the Nobel Prize that followed
• His lock-picking adventures at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project
• The legendary Feynman Lectures on Physics and his gift for making science accessible
• The Challenger investigation and the famous ice-water O-ring demonstration