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Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on a great number of lectures by Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called "The Great Explainer". [1] The lectures were presented before undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), during 1961–1964.
0-393-32069-3. Tuva or Bust! (1991) is a book by Ralph Leighton about the author and his friend Richard Feynman 's attempt to travel to Tuva, Siberia . The introduction explains how Feynman challenged Leighton, at the time a high school math teacher, "Whatever happened to Tannu Tuva ?" Since Feynman had a reputation as a prankster, Leighton ...
Miniaturization (publ. 1961) included Feynman's lecture as its final chapter. " There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics " was a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at the annual American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. [1] Feynman considered the possibility of direct ...
Joan Feynman (March 31, 1927 – July 21, 2020) was an American astrophysicist and space physicist. She made contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields, sun-Earth relations, and magnetospheric physics.
QC16.F49 A3 1988. Preceded by. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collections of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize -winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1988, the book covers several instances in Feynman's life and was prepared from ...
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a collection of short works from American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and printed articles.. Among these is his famous 1959 lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", his report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and his speech on scientific integrity in which he coined the term "cargo cult scien
0-201-36080-2. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist is a non-fiction book by the Nobel Prize -winning physicist Richard Feynman. It is a collection of three previously unpublished public lectures given by Feynman in 1963. [1] The book was first published in hardcover in 1998, ten years after Feynman's death, by Addison–Wesley.