
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Feynman (fìn´men),
Richard Phillips
1918-1988
American physicist. He shared
a 1965 Nobel Prize for research in quantum electrodynamics.
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Feynman, Richard Phillips
(1918-1988), American physicist, born in New York City. During World War
II (1939-1945), he worked on the Manhattan Project, the United States atomic
bomb development program. Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics
with American physicist Julian S. Schwinger and
Japanese
physicist Shin'ichiro Tomonaga. Feynman was honored for his research on
the transformation of a
photon
into an electron and a positron and for his discovery of a method to measure
the resulting changes in charge and mass. His writings include _Surely
You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character_ (1985).
Science, 1948
U.S. physicists Richard Phillips Feynman and Julian Schwinger, both 30, develop a quantum theory of electrodynamics far more powerful than the 1926 Dirac theory or 1927 Heisenberg theory.
"
Quantum
mechanics describes nature as
absurd
and it fully agrees from the point of common sense. And it
fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is
- absurd."
- Richard Feynman