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Richard Feynman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1965
for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
Together with: Julian Seymour Schwinger , Shinichiro Tomonaga
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English, Portuguese
date of birth
5/11/1918
place of birth
Queens, Far Rockaway
date of death
2/15/1988
place of death
Los Angeles, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center
Lived
69 years

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educated at
  • Princeton University
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • start time: 1939
    • end time: 1942
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • academic degree: bachelor's degree
    • end time: 1939
    • start time: 1935
  • Far Rockaway High School
    • start time: 1931
    • end time: 1935
member of
  • Royal Society
    • start time: 4/8/1965
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1954
  • American Physical Society
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Rogers Commission
employer
  • California Institute of Technology
    • end time: 1988
    • start time: 1950
  • Cornell University
    • end time: 1950
    • start time: 1945
  • Manhattan Project
    • start time: 1941
    • end time: 1945
notable work
  • Feynman–Kac formula
  • Feynman diagram
  • Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • Feynman parametrization
  • The Character of Physical Law
  • Feynman slash notation
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
  • Bethe–Feynman formula
  • Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation
  • Feynman checkerboard
  • reverse sprinkler
  • Feynman point
  • Hellmann–Feynman theorem
  • Cargo Cult Science
field of work
  • physics
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • particle physics
occupation
  • politician
  • university teacher
  • science communicator
  • quantum physicist
  • inventor
  • physicist
  • percussionist
  • theoretical physicist
  • writer
doctoral student
  • Howard Arthur Kabakow
  • Sam M. Berman
  • Koichi Mano
  • Philip Moss Platzman
  • Steven Kenneth Kauffmann
  • Laurie Brown
  • Michel Baranger
  • Finn Ravndal
  • Marvin Chester
  • Thomas Curtright
  • Henry Hoyt Hilton
  • Michael Cohen
  • Carl Iddings
  • Willard Henry Wells
  • Elisha R. Huggins
  • Frank Edward Barnes
  • Frank Lee Vernon, Jr.
  • Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
  • James M. Bardeen
  • Al Hibbs
  • George Zweig
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