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

The deal was that Fredkin would teach Feynman computing, and Feynman would teach Fredkin quantum physics.

From MIT Technology Review

Feynman showed them a handwritten notebook filled with computations and challenged them to develop software that could perform symbolic mathematical computations.

From MIT Technology Review

Feynman himself took up this idea in the ’60s, and Hawking championed it in the ’70s and ’80s.

From Quanta Magazine

Later that year Mizera met Mastrolia, who realized that these techniques could work for Feynman diagrams too.

From Quanta Magazine

In a Feynman diagram the quarks’ paths are represented by “legs,” which join to form “vertices” when particles interact.

From Quanta Magazine

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

From The Daily Beast