Feynman

American  

[fahyn-muhn] / ˈfaɪn mən /

noun

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

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Feynman British  

/ ˈfaɪnmən /

noun

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

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Feynman Scientific  

/ 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.

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I have read before sleep no fewer than four scientific or science-adjacent books by James Gleick: “Chaos,” “The Information,” “Time Travel” and his biography of Richard Feynman, “Genius.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Nvidia could share more about how it’s scaling up co-packaged optics, Arcuri added, though that technology will likely come further down the road with the Feynman platform.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things,” Feynman said in 1981, “but I'm not absolutely sure of anything.”

From Salon ● May 20, 2025

Complete with chalkboard-like scientific diagrams, the vehicle once belonged to Richard Feynman, the late Nobel Prize-winning Caltech physicist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

When Oppenheimer called Richard Feynman into his office, the twenty- six-year-old Feynman must have thought he was in trouble again.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin