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Richard Feynman

1918 - 1988

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Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) 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. Feynman developed a pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and is widely used. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Feynman is the 56th most popular physicist (down from 36th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from United States (down from 128th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Physicist.

Richard Feynman is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics.

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Among physicists, Richard Feynman ranks 56 out of 851. Before him are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. After him are Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, and Wolfgang Pauli.

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Among people born in 1918, Richard Feynman ranks 7. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Anwar Sadat. After him are Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, Gertrude B. Elion, and Robert Wadlow. Among people deceased in 1988, Richard Feynman ranks 4. Before him are Enzo Ferrari, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and Georgy Malenkov. After him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Nico, John Holmes, Bacha Khan, Ernst Ruska, Valery Legasov, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Feynman ranks 170 out of 20,380. Before him are Katharine Hepburn (1907), Charles Francis Richter (1900), William James (1842), John Steinbeck (1902), Richard Gere (1949), and Carl Rogers (1902). After him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Tupac Shakur (1971), Steve McQueen (1930), Dwayne Johnson (1972), John Fenn (1917), and Priscilla Presley (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Richard Feynman ranks 4. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Charles H. Townes (1915), and Philip Warren Anderson (1923). After him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882).

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