Feynman

American  

[fahyn-muhn] / ˈfaɪn mən /

noun

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

---

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

---

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.

---

Example Sentences

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

Arcuri said Wall Street will be looking for more details on Nvidia’s roadmap all the way through its Feynman architecture, which is what follows the upcoming Vera Rubin platform.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 15, 2026

Feynman even helped him with his algebra homework, he recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

The problem is associated with pioneers in physics, from Ernst Mach, who posed the problem in the 1880s, to the Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, who worked on and popularized it from the 1960s through 1980s.

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

The Feynman sum over histories does allow travel into the past on a microscopic scale.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking