Feynman, Richard (1918-1988)

American born physicist who, in 1965, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga for work in quantum electrodynamics. He was a participant in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1945 he joined the faculty of Cornell University where he developed a simple notation for describing the complex behavior of subatomic particles that came to be known as Feynman Diagrams.

Contributed by: Dr. James Miller