Richard Feynman
Born
Richard Phillips Feynman

(1918-05-11)May 11, 1918
Queens, New York, US
DiedFebruary 15, 1988(1988-02-15) (aged 69)
Los Angeles, California, US
Resting placeMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, California, US
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. 1939)
Princeton University (Ph.D. 1942)
Known for
 
  • Manhattan Project
    Acoustic wave equation
    Bethe–Feynman formula
    Feynman checkerboard
    Feynman diagrams
    Feynman gauge
    Feynman–Kac formula
    Feynman parametrization
    Feynman point
    Feynman propagator
    Feynman slash notation
    Feynman sprinkler
    Hellmann–Feynman theorem
    V−A theory
    Brownian ratchet
    Feynman–Stueckelberg interpretation
    Nanotechnology
    One-electron universe
    Parton
    Path integral formulation
    Playing the bongos
    Quantum cellular automata
    Quantum computing
    Quantum electrodynamics
    Quantum hydrodynamics
    Quantum turbulence
    Shaft passer
    Sticky bead argument
    Synthetic molecular motor
    The Feynman Lectures on Physics
    Universal quantum simulator
    Vortex ring model
    Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
Spouse(s)
Arline Greenbaum
(m. 1941; died 1945)

Mary Louise Bell (m. 1952–1956)

Gweneth Howarth (m. 1960)
Children2
Awards
  • Albert Einstein Award (1954)
  • E. O. Lawrence Award (1962)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965)
  • Oersted Medal (1972)
  • National Medal of Science (1979)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsCornell University
California Institute of Technology
ThesisThe Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics (1942)
Doctoral advisorJohn Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students
  • James M. Bardeen
  • Laurie Mark Brown
  • Thomas Curtright
  • Albert Hibbs
  • Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
  • George Zweig
Other notable students
  • Robert Barro
  • W. Daniel Hillis
  • Douglas D. Osheroff
  • Paul Steinhardt
  • Stephen Wolfram