Uri Geller is an entertainer, writer and television personality who gained fame and notoriety from his claims that he has supernatural psychic abilities. After an early stint as a stage performer and magician, Geller's popularity took off after a series of television appearances in which he appeared to bend spoons, start stopped watches and other mysterious feats. Due to his claims that his psychic abilities were the gift of extraterrestrial beings, he came under harsh criticism throughout his entire career from well-known skeptics, including Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. Many of his critics have been able to reproduce the feats that he attributes to psychic ability by using stage magic, and he has been condemned by many magicians and scientists alike for attempting to pass off stage magic as evidence of supernatural powers. In spite of continuing vocal criticism, he made millions as a professional psychic dowsing for minerals for mining companies. After his first book, an autobiography, was published, he went on to write several books about supernatural abilities, published as non-fiction, as well as several novels. Today he continues to appear publicly in reality television shows both about stage magic as entertainment and about supernatural psychic abilities