In response to your numbered items: 1) Los Alamos/the Manhattan Project is explicitly claimed to be what the average person thinks Feynman was all about, what

In response to your numbered items: 1) Los Alamos/the Manhattan Project is explicitly claimed to be what the average person thinks Feynman was all about, what his primary contributions were. "Show a video of Richard Feynman, and many will recognize him; ask for some of his essential contributions, and few will know how to respond, beyond his participation in the Manhattan Project during the Second World War, which developed the atomic bomb" Then: "In fact, his collaboration in the nuclear program was the most material of his contributions." I was pointedly dismissing that. 2) Yes, I agree! This is my point. People think he was a major figure though. 3) Yes, I agree! This, again, is my point. He described stuff so vividly, from the top scientists, to the Trinity test, to the feelings of despair after the bomb was used, that despite the fact he wrote about playing games with the censors and the locks, it's easy for people to slide past it and think of him as one of the major scientists. As evidenced by this article saying that they do.