Richard P. Feynman

By:

Dylan Hagerty

• Born in New York City, in 1918

• Studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-B.Sc.

Memberships

• Member of the American Physical Society

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

Awards

• Albert Einstein Award (1954, Princeton)

• Einstein Award (College of Medicine Award)

• Assisted in the development of the Atomic Bomb

• Studied at Princeton University and got a Ph.D

• Research Assistant At Princeton (1940-1941)

• Physicists always have a habit of taking the simplest example of any phenomenon and calling it "physics," leaving the more complicated examples to become the concern of other fields...

• National Academy of Science

• Elected foreign member of Royal Society in 1965

• Lawrence Award (1962)

• Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965

• Expanded information on the quantum electrodynamics

• Translated Mayan hieroglyphics

• Died on February 15, 1988

Bibliography

• Author Unknown, Richard P. Feynman, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1965. 22 Feb 2010

• Author Unknown, Feynman.com, http://www.feynmanonline.com/. Copyright (c) 1997-2005 Friends of Tuva. 22 Feb 2010