Richard Feynman

Extracted Attributes

• IQ

  125

• Award

  Lawrence Award (1962)

• Full Name

  Richard Phillips Feynman

• Known For

  Introducing concept of nanotechnology

• Occupation

  Writer

• Nationality

  American

• Notable Work

  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

• Date of Birth

  1918-05-11

• Date of Death

  1988-02-15

• Professorship

  Richard C. Tolman Professorship in Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology

• Place of Birth

  Far Rockaway, New York City, New York, U.S.

• Place of Death

  UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

• Alma Mater (Ph.D.)

  Princeton University

• Alma Mater (Undergraduate)

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Rank (1999 Physics World poll)

  Seventh-greatest physicist of all time

Timeline

• Born in Far Rockaway, New York City, New York, U.S. (Source: summary, wikidata, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1918-05-11

• Completed his undergraduate thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposing an original approach to calculating forces in molecules. (Source: web_search_results)

  1939

• Received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1942

• Assisted in the development of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1942

• Began professorship in Theoretical Physics at Cornell University. (Source: web_search_results)

  1945

• Appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. (Source: web_search_results)

  1950

• Received the Albert Einstein Award. (Source: web_search_results)

  1954

• Delivered the influential talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," pioneering the concept of nanotechnology. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1959

• Began publication of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics," a three-volume series of his undergraduate lectures. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1961

• Received the Lawrence Award. (Source: web_search_results)

  1962

• Received the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for his fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics. (Source: summary, wikidata, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1965

• Published "The Character of Physical Law," a collection of lectures for lay audiences. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1965

• Engaged in efforts on the California State Curriculum Committee, protesting the mediocrity of textbooks. (Source: web_search_results)

  1960

• Gained wider public recognition as a member of the Rogers Commission, which investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1980

• Published his autobiographical book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1985

• Published "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter," another collection of lectures for lay audiences. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1985

• Published his autobiographical book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?". (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1988

• Died in Los Angeles, California, U.S. (Source: summary, wikidata, wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1988-02-15

• Ranked the seventh-greatest physicist of all time in a poll of 130 leading physicists by the British journal Physics World. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1999

Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best 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, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model. For his 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 pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and is widely used. 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 the wider 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 having pioneered 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 talk on top-down nanotechnology, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" (1959) and the three-volumes of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961–1964). He delivered lectures for lay audiences, recorded in The Character of Physical Law (1965) and QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985). Feynman also became known through his autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985) and What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), 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.

Web Search Results

• Richard Feynman - Wikipedia

  Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best 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, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with [...] Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a talk on top-down nanotechnology, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" (1959) and the three-volumes of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961–1964). He delivered lectures for lay audiences, recorded in The Character of Physical Law (1965) and QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985). Feynman also became known through his autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. [...] Feynman developed a pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and is widely used. 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.

• Richard Feynman | Biography, Nobel Prize, Books, & Facts | Britannica

  Richard Feynman (born May 11, 1918, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 15, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was an American theoretical physicist who was widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era. [...] Born in the Far Rockaway section of New York City, Feynman was the descendant of Russian and Polish Jews who had immigrated to the United States late in the 19th century. He studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his undergraduate thesis (1939) proposed an original and enduring approach to calculating forces in molecules. Feynman received his doctorate at Princeton University in 1942. At Princeton, with his adviser, John Archibald Wheeler, he developed an approach [...] Richard Feynman is famous for his work on quantum electrodynamics, which describes how light interacts with matter and how charged particles interact with each other. He also devised diagrams of how particles interact (now called Feynman diagrams) and a quantum mechanical explanation of liquid helium’s superfluid behaviour (how it flows without friction near absolute zero). ### Where did Richard Feynman go to school?

• [PDF] Genius The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

  Architect of quantum theories, brash young group leader on the atomic bomb project, inventor of the ubiquitous Feynman diagram, ebullient bongo player and storyteller, Richard Phillips Feynman was the most brilliant, iconoclastic, and influential physicist of modern times. He took the half-made conceptions of waves and particles in the 1940s and shaped them into tools that ordinary physicists could use and understand. He had a lightning ability to see into the heart of the problems nature [...] working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber. Feynman resented the polished myths of most scientific history, [...] Feynman studied friction on highly polished surfaces, hoping—and mostly failing—to understand how friction worked. He tried to make a theory of how wind makes ocean waves grow; as he said later, “We put our foot in a swamp and we pulled it up muddy.” He explored the connection between the forces of atoms and the elastic properties of the crystals they form. He assembled experimental data and theoretical ideas on the folding of strips of paper into peculiar shapes called flexagons. He made

• Richard P. Feynman *42 Physics 1965 - Princetoniana Museum

  Feynman was a professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University (1945-1950) and then Visiting Professor and thereafter appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (1950-1959). He was the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. [...] Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City on May 11, 1918. Feynman attended Far Rockaway High School, which was also attended by fellow Nobel laureates Burton Richter and Baruch Samuel Blumberg. Upon starting high school, Feynman was quickly promoted to a higher math class. An IQ test administered in high school estimated his IQ at 125—high but "merely respectable", according to biographer James Gleick. His sister Joan, who scored one point higher, later jokingly claimed to an interviewer [...] Professor Feynman was a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the National Academy of Science; in 1965 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, London (Great Britain). He holds the following awards: Albert Einstein Award (1954, Princeton); Einstein Award (Albert Einstein Award College of Medicine); Lawrence Award (1962).

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics: About the Authors - Caltech

  Born in 1918 in New York City, Richard P. Feynman received his Ph.D from Princeton in 1942. Despite his youth, he played an important part in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II. Subsequently, he taught at Cornell and at the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger, for his work in quantum electrodynamics. [...] Richard Feynman was a constructive public man. His work on the Challenger commission is well known, especially his famous demonstration of the susceptibility of the O-rings to cold, an elegant experiment which required nothing more than a glass of ice water and a C-clamp. Less well known were Dr. Feynman's efforts on the California State Curriculum Committee in the 1960s, where he protested the mediocrity of textbooks. [...] Dr. Feynman won his Nobel Prize for successfully resolving problems with the theory of quantum electrodynamics. He also created a mathematical theory that accounts for the phenomenon of superfluidity in liquid helium. Thereafter, with Murray Gell-Mann, he did fundamental work in the area of weak interactions such as beta decay. In later years Feynman played a key role in the development of quark theory by putting forward his parton model of high energy proton collision processes.

• Award

  Nobel Prize in Physics

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Princeton University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  writer

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  5/11/1918

• Date Of Death

  2/15/1988

• Notable Work

  Feynman diagram

• Place Of Birth

  Far Rockaway

• Place Of Death

  UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

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, 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 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.