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empireofdust06/16/20251 replyview on HN

Do most physicists think of Feynman as having been a renegade? I know he was quite eccentric.


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NotAnOtter06/16/2025

Yes.

He self-published a lot of material under various pseudonyms / sponsored others to write biographies that painted him as a Tony Stark adjacent character. A lot of Iron Man comics are based on exaggerated version of Feynman stories.

He was a truly brilliant "top 100 of all time" type physicist, but also had one of the biggest ego's I've ever looked into. Pair it with the misogyny, abuse of power, racism, etc... I'm not his biggest fan.

E: Why is my original comment being downvoted/flagged lmao. This site is odd sometimes.

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