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The video is not about Feynman's actual career. That's actually the point -- the idea of Feynman people have in their minds is totally divorced from the actual person and his work.

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Maybe true in the early 90s but I don't imagine really anyone in the general public is familiar with him anymore. Physicists know of him.

>is about Feynman being famous because of this book rather than because of his physics.

People still do very much know of him. My mother is the person who introduced me to his book. I was showing some interest in science in school when it was presented to me though. Though he's probably waning from "household name" status he's likely still widely known

A lot of the comments on this post are references to the book "surely you're joking Mr Feynman", which was a collection of stories(with a lot of embellishment) told by Feynman.

That is the "sham legacy of Richard Feynman", the fact that most people remember him for stories and not his work

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