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Article: Richard Phillips Feynman
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Richard Phillips Feynman , 1918-88, American physicist, b. New York City, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939, Ph.D. Princeton, 1942. From 1942 to 1945 he worked on the development of the atomic bomb. He taught (1945-50) at Cornell Univ. and became professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1950. The Feynman diagram, proposed by him in 1949, shows the track of a particle in space and time and provides a clear means of describing particle interactions. Feynman also made significant contributions to the theories of
superfluidity
and quarks. In 1957 he and Murray
Gell-Mann
proposed the theory of weak nuclear
force
. Feynman shared the 1965 ...
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