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Feynman, Richard Phillips
Feynman (fnmen), Richard
Phillips
1918-1988
American physicist. He shared a
1965 Nobel Prize for research in quantum electrodynamics.
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Feynman, Richard Phillips
(1918-1988), American physicist, born in New York City. During World
War II (1939-1945), he worked on the Manhattan Project, the United
States atomic bomb development program.
Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel
Prize in physics with American physicist Julian S. Schwinger and Japanese
physicist Shin'ichiro Tomonaga. Feynman was honored for his research
on the transformation of a
photon into an
electron and a positron and for his discovery of a method to measure
the resulting changes in charge and mass. His writings include _Surely
You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character_ (1985).
Science, 1948
U.S. physicists Richard Phillips Feynman and Julian Schwinger, both 30, develop a quantum theory of electrodynamics far more powerful than the 1926 Dirac theory or 1927 Heisenberg theory.
"Quantum
mechanics describes nature as
absurd and it
fully agrees from the point of common sense. And it
fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as
She is - absurd."
- Richard Feynman