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

Noted theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, for one, was an apostle for it.

From Salon • May 20, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

"Strange as it may seem," wrote Richard Feynman, "we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth."

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