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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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

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

Andy Warhol, Charlie Parker, Ray Bradbury and physicist Richard Feynman are among those who visited the ranch, much of which burned.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

It exists everywhere, from our daily lives to the distant universe, while being labelled as "the last great unsolved problem of classical physics" by Richard Feynman.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

It was Newton who realized that the pull of any two objects is, to quote Feynman again, "proportional to the mass of each and varies inversely as the square of the distance between them."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson