Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He is also known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and the parton model.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Far Rockaway
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFar Rockaway High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Albert Einstein Award🏆 Putnam Fellow
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John Archibald Wheeler
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 George Zweig
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Trending topics shown first"Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. It's, in fact, a big collection of the results of so…"
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
"And then there's a kind of saying that you don't understand it, meaning "I don't believe it. It's too crazy. It's the kind of thing, I'm just... I'm not going to accept it."... This kind, I hope you'l…"
"So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we hu…"
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1918
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Birth1988
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