Bill Gates recently bought the rights to a series of lectures by legendary Caltech physicist Richard Feynman. The former Microsoft head’s purchase shows that the cultural and scientific legacy of Feynman remains strong even 21 years after his death.

The lectures, given in 1964 as part of Cornell University’s Messenger Lecture Series, were filmed by the BBC, who had retained the rights since. Gates purchased the lectures for an undisclosed amount.

via Atheist Media Blog: Gates Buys Feynman’s “Messenger” Lectures to Become Freely Available for Public.

Bill Gates just went up a notch in my esteem. He’s a Feynman fan! Okay, enough babble, here’s the link to the YouTube playlist for Feyman’s Messenger lectures.

PlayList

Enjoy.

Freeman Dyson once described Richard Feynman as ‘half-genius, half-buffoon’. He later revised this opinion to ‘all-genius, all-buffoon’. I cannot think of a better epitaph.