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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
"for his fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
Richard P. Feynman
USA
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
1918 - 1988

RICHARD P. FEYNMAN

Theoretical Group Leader

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Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City on the 11th May 1918. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his B. Sc. in 1939 and at Princeton University where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University 1945-1950), Visiting Professor and thereafter appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (1950-1959 ). At present he is Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Feynman is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the National Academy of Science; in 1965 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, London ( Great Britain).

He holds the following awards: Albert Einstein Award (1954, Princeton); Einstein Award (Albert Einstein Award College of Medicine); Lawrence Award (1962).

Richard Feynman is married to Gweneth Howarth, they have a son, Carl Richard (born 22nd April 1961), and a daughter Michelle Catherine (born 13th August 1968).

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1963-1970.

 Richard Feynman died in 1988

 

 
 
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