Feynman
[ fahyn-muhn ]
/ ˈfaɪn mən /
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noun
Richard Phillips, 1918–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.
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Feynman himself took up this idea in the ’60s, and Hawking championed it in the ’70s and ’80s.
Later that year Mizera met Mastrolia, who realized that these techniques could work for Feynman diagrams too.
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View|Charlie Wood|August 20, 2020|Quanta MagazineIn a Feynman diagram the quarks’ paths are represented by “legs,” which join to form “vertices” when particles interact.
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View|Charlie Wood|August 20, 2020|Quanta MagazineFrom there, some very smart people, like Richard Feynman, deduced what is known as the sum over histories.
British Dictionary definitions for Feynman
Feynman
/ (ˈfaɪnmən) /
noun
Richard . 1918–88, US physicist, noted for his research on quantum electrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1965
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Scientific definitions for Feynman
Feynman
[ fīn′mən ]
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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