FBI files on famous physicist released

Friday, June 15, 2012 - 11:00 in Astronomy & Space

Physicist Richard Feynman helped create the atomic bomb, shared a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics, and figure out the source of the space shuttle Challenger explosion. But he was also subject to scrutiny by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, as it sought to uncover communist sympathizers during the 1950s.

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