Do You Care
This person's Caltech lectures were the basis of his books Six Easy Pieces and Six Not So Easy Pieces. This person worked with Murray Gell-Mann to explain the weak interaction, and he extended work by Paul Dirac on path integrals. This person shared a Nobel Prize with Schwinger and Tomonaga for his work on quantum electrodynamics, and much later he investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. He included a space axis and a time axis and often showed two arrows meeting a squiggly line in his namesake diagrams. Name this practical joker who wrote the autobiography What Do You Care What Other People Think?
This person's Caltech lectures were the basis of his books Six Easy Pieces and Six
Richard Feynman