Richard+Feynman

__** Richard Feynam **__

Richard P. Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in New York City. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology in 1939 and Princeton University in 1942. He received a B.Sc. from MIT and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Feynman worked as Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University, Professorof Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.



Feynman was the Leading Theoretical Physicist of his time. He was an architect of quantum theories who contributed to the atomic theory by his work with the development of the atom bomb. He came up with the "Feynman Diagrams" of particle behavior. He took conceptions of matter and energy of the 1940s and shaped them into things that numnut professors could understand and use to calculate things with. Feynman Diagrams

His greatest achievement won him the Nobel Prize for work he did when he was in his 20s. He remade the theory of quantum eletrodynamics, which governs every physical and chemical process except for ones in gravitation and radioactivity. He left a big impact on modern physics as an author and educator too. His ideas have lived on to this day. They are one of the reasons new theories on quantum physics are being made to this day.



Links: www.nytimes.com/1988/02/17/obituaries/richard-feynam-dead-at-69-leading-theoretical-physicist.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html

Distraction sites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAFcZo8dTcU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6VmjMg_GA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJipa07DoHs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH091zFHdQ0 (AWESOME!)