Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman
Born	Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-05-11)May 11, 1918 Queens, New York, U.S.
Died	February 15, 1988(1988-02-15) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Cornell University California Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University
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
Known for	Manhattan Project Acoustic wave equation Bethe–Feynman formula Feynman checkerboard Feynman diagrams Feynman gauge Feynman–Kac formula Feynman Long Division Puzzles Feynman parametrization Feynman point Feynman propagator Feynman slash notation Feynman sprinkler Hellmann–Feynman theorem Brownian ratchet Feynman–Stueckelberg interpretation Nanotechnology One-electron universe Parton Path integral formulation Quantum cellular automata Quantum computing Quantum electrodynamics Quantum hydrodynamics Quantum turbulence Shaft passer Sticky bead argument Synthetic molecular motor The Feynman Lectures on Physics Universal quantum simulator Vortex ring model Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
Notable awards	Albert Einstein Award (1954) E. O. Lawrence Award (1962) Nobel Prize in Physics (1965) Fellow of the Royal Society (1965) Oersted Medal (1972) National Medal of Science (1979)
Spouse	Arline Greenbaum (m. 1941; d. 1945) Mary Louise Bell (m. 1952–56) Gweneth Howarth (m. 1960)
Children	Carl Feynman Michelle Feynman
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Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; 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, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin'ichirō Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing 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 as one of the ten greatest physicists 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.

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