Review #12 – The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman

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Richard P. Feynman – Physicist (1918-1988)

Richard Feynman was, in many respects, an eccentric and a free spirit.

ON MAY 11 in 1918, Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City. Feynman, with two other scientists, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He received his undergrad degree from MIT in 1939, and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. He worked at Los Alamos, then became a professor at Cornell from 1945-1950. Feynman became professor of theoretical physics at California Institute of Technology in 1950. When Physics World polled scientists asking them to rank the greatest physicists, Feynman was rated seventh, behind Galileo.