Richard Feynman
Born | Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-05-11)May 11, 1918 Queens, New York, US
Died | February 15, 1988(1988-02-15) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, US
Resting place | Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, California, US
Alma mater | Massachusetts 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)
Children | 2
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
Fields | Theoretical physics
Institutions | Cornell University California Institute of Technology
Thesis | The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics (1942)
Doctoral advisor | John 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