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Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 May 1918
- Died
- 15 February 1988
- Part of
- Rogers Commission
- Place of birth
- Queens, Far Rockaway
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Feynman
- Father
- Melville Arthur Feynman
- Mother
- Lucille Feynman
- Spouse
- Arline Feynman
- Child
- Michelle Feynman
- Sibling
- Joan Feynman
- Field of work
- quantum electrodynamics, particle physics, physics
- Occupation
- physicist, quantum physicist, inventor, writer, university teacher, percussionist, theoretical physicist, science communicator, politician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- American English
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Oersted Medal, Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, Albert Einstein Award, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, Putnam Fellow
- academic thesis
- The principle of least action in quantum mechanics
- cause of death
- abdominal cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- John Archibald Wheeler
- doctoral student
- George Zweig, Thomas Curtright, Michel Baranger, Al Hibbs, Laurie Brown, Howard Arthur Kabakow, Philip Moss Platzman, Marvin Chester, Koichi Mano, Michael Cohen, Sam M. Berman, Frank Lee Vernon, Jr.
- Erdős number
- 3
- influenced by
- Paul Dirac
- interested in
- physics
- IPA transcription
- ˈfaɪnmən
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, Portuguese
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- synesthesia
- member of
- Royal Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, National Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Richard Phillips Feynman
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Feynman diagram, Feynman–Kac formula, Hellmann–Feynman theorem, Cargo Cult Science, The Character of Physical Law, Bethe–Feynman formula, Feynman checkerboard, Feynman parametrization, Feynman point, Feynman slash notation
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- place of burial
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum
- pseudonym
- Ofey
- residence
- Far Rockaway, Los Alamos, Altadena
- significant place
- Tuva
- student
- Robert Barro, William Daniel Hillis
- student of
- Abram Bader, John Archibald Wheeler
- topic has template
- Template:Richard Feynman
- topic's main category
- Category:Richard Feynman
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics
- “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
- There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
- The Character of Physical Law
- QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- Feynman's Lost Lecture
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
- The Meaning of It All
- Feynman Lectures on Computation
- Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine
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