Richard Feynman Facts
Richard Feynman Facts
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| Richard Phillips Feynman was born in New York City. |
| He had an early interest in mathematics and taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra and analytic geometry before he entered college. |
| His senior year at Far Rockaway High School, he was awarded the New York University Math Championship. |
| He applied to Columbia University but was not admitted because they had filled their quota of Jews. |
| In 1939 he received a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| In 1942 he was awarded a PhD from Princeton with a thesis entitled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics." |
| While at Princeton he was recruited to work on the Manhattan project which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. |
| He and Hans Bethe developed the formula for calculating the yield of a fission bomb. |
| From 1945 to 1950 he was Professor of Physics at Cornell University. |
| From 1950 to 1959 he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. |
| He pioneered the field of quantum computing and developed the concept of nanotechnology. |
| In 1980 he was a member of the Rogers Commission which was formed to investigate the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. |
| He was an educator and popularized physics through his books and lectures. |
| Feynman had a great reputation as a prankster and his autobiography is entitled Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman. |
| In addition to the Nobel Prize he was awarded are the Albert Einstein Award (1954) and the Lawrence Award (1962). |
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