Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize Laureates
Richard Feynman
1965 Physics
* 1918 in Queens/NY
+ 1988 Los Angeles
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Richard Phillips Feynman 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 his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics,
Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2017 J. Giesen