Feynman

[ fahyn-muhn ]

/ ˈfaɪn mən /

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noun

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

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How to use Feynman in a sentence

The deal was that Fredkin would teach Feynman computing, and Feynman would teach Fredkin quantum physics.
Tomorrow’s computer, yesterday|Simson Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Feynman showed them a handwritten notebook filled with computations and challenged them to develop software that could perform symbolic mathematical computations.
Tomorrow’s computer, yesterday|Simson Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Feynman himself took up this idea in the ’60s, and Hawking championed it in the ’70s and ’80s.
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End|George Musser|October 29, 2020|Quanta Magazine
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 Magazine

In 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 Magazine
From there, some very smart people, like Richard Feynman, deduced what is known as the sum over histories.
The 6 Smartest Ideas From Stephen Hawking's New Book|Joshua Robinson|September 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST

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 ]

Richard Phillips 1918-1988

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.