Keeping with the theme of the last few weeks of science history videos, I couldn’t resist this very enthusiastic paean to physicist Richard Feynman, “The Great Explainer”. We posted some BBC footage of Feynman himself a few years ago, but this one, from SciShow, tells the story of his life, from the Manhattan Project, to Feynman Diagrams to figuring out why the space shuttle Challenger exploded. It does a nice job of capturing both the joy that Feynman brought to his research and his incredible gift for communicating complex concepts.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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