Richard Feynman
- Born: May 11, 1918 (New York, New York)
- Died: February 15, 1988 (Los Angeles, California)
Education
- 1939: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1942: PhD, Princeton University (Theoretical Physics)
Major Positions
- 1941–1943: Princeton University, Physicist, Isotron Development Project
- 1943–1945: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Leader, Diffusion Problems Group
- 1945–1951: Cornell University, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1951–1988: California Institute of Technology, Tolman Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1951–1951: Brazilian Center for Physics Research, Visiting Scientist
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1965: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1979: National Medal of Science
Archival Resources
California Institute of Technology, Institute Archives, Pasadena, California
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1966: Available Online
- 1973: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Microsoft Project Tuva: Feynman's Messenger Lectures
BBC Horizon video clips, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
Published Resources
Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character (New York: Norton, 1985)
Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton, What Do YOU Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character (New York: Norton, 1988)
Ralph Leighton, Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey (New York: Norton, 1991)
James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (New York: Pantheon, 1992)
Laurie M. Brown and John S. Rigden, eds., “Most of the Good Stuff”: Memories of Richard Feynman (New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993)
Silvan S. Schweber, Q.E.D. and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
Christopher Sykes, ed., No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (New York: Norton, 1994)
Jagdish Mehra, The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin, Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (London: Penguin, 1997)
Anthony J. G. Hey, Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 1999)
Leonard Mlodinow, Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life (New York: Warner Books, 2003)
Richard P. Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (New York: Basic Books, 2005)
David Kaiser, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Lawrence M. Krauss, Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)
David A. Edwards, "Atomic Discourse in ‘The Feynman Lectures on Physics’," Synthese: International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 65 (1985): 445-480
Silvan S. Schweber, "Feynman and the Visualization of the Space-Time Process," Reviews of Modern Physics 58 (1986): 449-508
John A. Wheeler, Freeman J. Dyson, et al., "Richard Feynman," Physics Today 42 (1989): 22-88
Freeman J. Dyson, "Feynman’s Proof of the Maxwell Equations," American Journal of Physics 58 (1990): 209-211
J. Leite Lopes, "Richard Feynman in Brazil: Personal Recollections," Quipu: Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología 7 (1990): 383-397
Anthony J. G. Hey, "Memories of Richard Feynman," Physics Today 49 (1996): 44-49
David Derbis, "Feynman’s Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation," American Journal of Physics 64 (1996): 881-884
Jerrold L. Aronson, "Dispositions as the Foundation for Feynman’s Formulation of Quantum Mechanics," Dialectica: International Review of Philosophy of Knowledge 51 (1997): 35-64
David Cohen, "Feynman and the Psychotherapist," New Scientist 153 (1997): 24-27
Peter Galison, "Feynman’s War: Modelling Weapons, Modelling Nature," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29 (1998): 391-434
David Goodstein and Judith Goodstein, "Richard Feynman and the History of Superconductivity," Physics in Perspective 2 (2000): 30-47
David Kaiser, Kenji Ito, and Karl Hall, "Spreading the Tools of Theory: Feynman Diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the Soviet Union," Social Studies of Science 34 (2004): 879-922
Denis N. Rall, "The ‘House That Dick Built’: Constructing the Team That Built the Bomb," Social Studies of Science 36 (2006): 943-957
