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"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."― Richard P. Feynman

Richard Feynman
Feynman c. 1965
Born	Richard Phillips Feynman May 11, 1918 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	February 15, 1988 (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, California, U.S.
Other names	Dick Feynman
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. 1939) Princeton University (Ph.D. 1942)
Known for	show
Spouse(s)	Arline Greenbaum     (m. 1941; died 1945) Mary Louise Bell     (m. 1952⁠–⁠1956) Gweneth Howarth     (m. 1960)
Children	2
Awards	Albert Einstein Award (1954) E. O. Lawrence Award (1962) Nobel Prize in Physics (1965) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965) Oersted Medal (1972) National Medal of Science (1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Cornell University California Institute of Technology
Thesis	The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics (1942)
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students	James M. Bardeen Laurie Mark Brown Thomas Curtright Albert Hibbs Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz George Zweig
Other notable students	Robert Barro W. Daniel Hillis Douglas D. Osheroff Paul Steinhardt Stephen Wolfram
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Richard Phillips Feynman ForMemRS (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.

Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, he was ranked the seventh greatest physicist of all time.

He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Along with his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, and books written about him such as Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton and the biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick.

Publications:

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• Feynman Lectures On Computation
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III
• Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
• Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals
• Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
• Statistical Mechanics: A Set Of Lectures
• Surely you're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I
• The Meaning of It All
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
• What Do You Care What Other People Think?
• Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• Simulating Physics with Computers
• Forces in Molecules
• There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics
• Very high-energy collisions of hadrons
• Theory of the Fermi interaction
• The theory of a general quantum system interacting with a linear dissipative system
• The theory of positrons
• Space-time approach to quantum electrodynamics
• Interaction with the absorber as the mechanism of radiation
• An operator calculus having applications in quantum electrodynamics
• Quantum-Mechanical Computers
• Mobility of slow electrons in a polar crystal
• The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America
• Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington
• The Value of Science
• Theory of inelastic scattering of cold neutrons from liquid helium
• Group U(6)⊗U(6) Generated by Current Components
• What is Science?
• Infinitesimal Machinery
• The principle of least action in quantum mechanics
• The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics
• A relativistic cut-off for classical electrodynamics
• Effective classical partition functions
• Geometrical Representation of the Schrodinger Equation for Solving Maser Problems
• Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction
• Quark elastic scattering as a source of high-transverse-momentum mesons
• Quantum-chromodynamic approach for the large-transverse-momentum production of particles and jets
• Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of Direct Interparticle Action