American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He is also known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and the parton model. Feynman developed a pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and remains widely used.

Born

1918

May 11

Died

1988

Era

1910s

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1918 Born
1988 Died

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330 Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
868 A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, the earliest dated and printed book known.
973 In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.
1068 Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned Queen of England.

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The world in 1918

When Richard arrived

april 1 The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
april 20 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
april 21 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
april 23 World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

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Abdul Haris Nasution 1918–2000 Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence (died 2000) Arthur Jackson 1918– American lieutenant and target shooter (died 2015) Arthur Kornberg 1918–2007 American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007) B. K. S. Iyengar 1918–2014 Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (born 1918) Brenda Milner 1918– English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic Chaim Herzog 1918–1997 Israeli general, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of Israel (born 1918) Dave Bartholomew 1918– American bandleader, composer and arranger (died 2019) George Allen 1918–1990 American football player and coach (died 1990) Guy Gibson 1918–1944 Anglo-Indian commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1944)

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