Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman · Science & Medicine
Quantum Electrodynamics
1918, New York City, USA — 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
United States (New York · Caltech)
Richard Feynman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Quantum Electrodynamics
Raised in a secular Jewish family in New York, Feynman worked on the Manhattan Project and then reformulated quantum electrodynamics, the theory of how light and matter interact. His path-integral approach and the intuitive «Feynman diagrams» tamed the infinities that had blocked the field, matching experiment to extraordinary precision. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics and became one of the most influential teachers and public explainers of physics.
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Source: Nobel Prize Physics 1965
Quantum Electrodynamics
Source: Nobel Prize Physics 1965
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