Born: 1918-05-11 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.
Awarded on: 1965-10-21
"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
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