~~Richard+Feynman~~

[] Richard Feynman 1918-1988 Birthplace: New York City Discoveries: 1965 quantum electrodynamics, 1960s Feynman Diagrams, 1969 parton model

Feynman was a late talker as he did not speak until after he was three. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his B.Sc. in 1939 and at Princeton University where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. He was Research Assistant at Princeton, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Science, and the Royal Society (Great Britain). He won the Albert Einstein Award, Einstein Award, and the Lawrence Award. He married Gweneth Howarth and has a son and daughter. He was also a free spirit and was known as a prankster, juggler, artist, bongo and percussion player, and professional lock-picker.

Feynman helped develope the nuclear bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. His Feynman Diagrams gave simple explanations to the complex behavior of subatomic particles. He explained the superfluid behavior of liquid helium. In 1965, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the developement of quantum electrodynamic, a theory describing the interaction of charged subatomic particles within electric and magnetic fields. He presented his "parton model" in 1969. []