Richard Feynman

Also known as Richard Phillips Feynman, Ofey, Feynman, Dick Feynman, Richard P. Feynman

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

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Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist who lived from 1918 to 1988 and made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and other areas of physics. He is remembered as an influential figure in 20th-century science whose work helped shape modern physics.

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Modeling the appearance of cloth

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1918-05-11
Active to: 1988-02-15

physicist

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The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
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Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
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ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,292x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x

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Quotes

“We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!”
“PrinciplesYou can't say A is made of Bor vice versa.All mass is interaction.”
“I had too much stuff. My machines came from too far away.”
“The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.”
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1965
“for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”
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Instance of: human
Part of: Rogers Commission
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Far Rockaway
Place of death: UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center
Sibling: Joan Feynman
Occupation: politician
Educated at: Princeton University
Employer: Manhattan Project
Languages spoken: Portuguese
Native language: American English
Religion: atheism
Notable work: Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
Participant in: Manhattan Project
Doctoral advisor: John Archibald Wheeler
Student of: John Archibald Wheeler
Field of work: physics
Official website: richardfeynman.com
Image: RichardFeynman-PaineMansionWoods1984 copyrightTamikoThiel bw.jpg
Residence: Altadena

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member of: National Academy of Sciences
topic's main category: Category:Richard Feynman
date of birth: 1918-05-11
date of death: 1988-02-15
IPA transcription: ˈfaɪnmən
Erdős number: 3
manner of death: natural causes
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
student: William Daniel Hillis
name in native language: Richard Phillips Feynman
influenced by: Paul Dirac
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pseudonym: Ofey
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medical condition: synesthesia
significant place: Tuva
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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He is also known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and the parton model. Feynman developed a pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and remains widely used.

He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to the wider public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Along with his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with having pioneered the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, he was ranked the seventh-greatest physicist of all time.

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