Feynman, Richard Phillips
Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918-1988), a United States physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics for the development of modern quantum electrodynamics, the theory that describes the interaction of subatomic particles. Feynman's achievement was to determine the behavior of electrons with far greater accuracy than had been done before. He published his findings in 1948. His collection of mischievously humorous autobiographical anecdotes, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, was a best-seller.
Feynman was born in New York City. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939 and received a doctorate from Princeton in 1942. He was on the staff of the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos (1943-45) and then taught at Cornell University (1945-50) and the California Institute of Technology (1950-88).