Richard Phillips Feynman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Richard Phillips Feynman (/?fa?nm?n/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World he was ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time.He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, notably a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? and books written about him, such as Tuva or Bust!.
Nobel Prize in Physics, Oersted Medal, Albert Einstein Award, National Medal of Science for Physical Science, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Nominations
National Book Award for Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Movies
Infinity, Anti-Clock
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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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.
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. "Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. [on identifying the reason for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger by showing that O-rings grow brittle when immersed in water, Life magazine, January 1987]
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The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth. I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere gobs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the "why?" It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. [last words]
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. [After working on the Challenger investigation]
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Fact
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 289-291. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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His last name is actually pronounced "Fine-man" although many Europeans (and those influenced by European customs) still pronounce it "Fane-man".
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Has two children: Carl (1962-present) and Michelle Feynman (1968-present)
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Signed all of his sketches and drawings under the pen name "Ofey" so no one would figure out it was him who was drawing them.
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According to "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" written by Feynman himself, he started drumming during his time at Los Alamos as he was enchanted by the drumming of the Indians and because there was no entertainment there. He tried to give it up after he became a Professor (which coincided with his 10 month stay in Brazil) Later on he began to play again and taught himself African drumming after a friend gave him some sheet music based on the drumming of the Watusi tribe.
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Pictured on one of four 37¢ USA commemorative postage stamps honoring American Scientists, issued 4 May 2005. Others honored in this issue were geneticist Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann, and physicist/thermodynamicist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
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Sat on the Challenger US space shuttle disaster commision. He was the one who reported the o-ring as being the cause of the explosion.
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Won Nobel Prize in physics (1965). He was considering turning it down.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Infinity
1996
books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?'"
The Character of Physical Law
1964
TV Mini-Series documentary
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Anti-Clock
1979
The Physicist
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Coil
2001
writer: "Kargyraa Rap"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
About Time
1962
TV Movie advisor
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Horizon
1964-1988
TV Series documentary
Himself
Nova
1983
TV Series documentary
Himself
Fun to Imagine
1983
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Character of Physical Law
1964
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
CERN: Warum wir das tun was wir tun
2015
Video documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
2013
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Reality of Me (TROM)
2011
Documentary
Himself
The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion
$500,000
