Richard Feynman Born 5/11/1918 Far Rockaway NY Liked taking things apart Solved Puzzles Taught Calculus to himself BS in Physics from MIT

Worked on Manhattan Project after PhD from Princeton Von Neumann, Feynman, and Ulam at Los Alamos

Professor at Caltech after Cornell Taught Introductory Physics Classes Published the Feynman Lectures on Physics Nobel Prize in Physics for QED in 1965

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) explains how light interacts with matter Feynman Diagrams are tools used to predict these interactions

Published best-selling book “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, Adventures of a Curious Character” in 1985 Stories from his days in college, the Manhattan Project and Caltech

His many other books are still in print

Feynman was a member of the Challenger Commission and uncovered the main reason for the explosion of the Space Shuttle during launch in 1986

Feynman died on 2/15/1988 of cancer This is how he left the blackboard at Caltech

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