Richard Feynman

RICHARD FEYNMAN'S LIFE

• 1918 Born in New York, U.S.
• 1933 Taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus, while he was in high school at 15 years old.
• 1939 Recieved bachelor's degree from MIT. He attained a perfect score on the graduate school entrance exams to Princeton University in physics—an unprecedented feat—and an outstanding score in mathematics, but did poorly on the history and English portions.
• 1941 Involved in the Manhattan Project at Princeton and later at Los Alamos.
• 1942 Recieved a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
• 1944 Appointed an assistant professor at Cornell University.
• 1948 Introduced the Feynman diagram.
• 1950 Left Cornell University and went to Caltech.
• 1954 Won the Albert Einstein Award, which was worth $15,000 and came with a gold medal.
• 1965 Received the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
• 1986 Joined the Roger Commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1988 Dies at the age of 69.

"The best teacher I never had."

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