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Bill Gates recently bought the video rights to Richard Feynman’s 1964 lectures at Cornell University. And now he’s released them through Microsoft Research’s Project Tuva.

I’ve been a fan of Richard Feynman for close to 20 years. I read the two books of stories of his life that he co-wrote: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) and What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character. And I also read James Gleick’s Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

One of my life goals is to one day fully understand Feynman Diagrams. But that can wait, because I plan on enjoying the lecture series. Thank you, Bill Gates.

Note: to use Project Tuva (and watch the videos) you will have to download and install Microsoft Silverlight, a browser application framework, which competes with Adobe Flash, and which is not available for all browser/OS platforms.