Feynman

[ fahyn-muhn ]

noun

1. Richard Phillips, 1918–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.

Feynman

/ ˈfaɪnmən /

noun

1. FeynmanRichard19181988MUSSCIENCE: physicist Richard . 1918–88, US physicist, noted for his research on quantum electrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1965

Feynman

/ fīn′mən /

1. American physicist who developed the theory of quantum electrodynamics, laying the foundation for all other quantum field theories. His approach combined quantum mechanics and relativity theory, and exploited a method using diagrams of particle interactions to greatly simplify calculations. For this work he shared with American physicist Julian Schwinger and Japanese physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga the 1965 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

From there, some very smart people, like Richard Feynman, deduced what is known as the sum over histories.

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