Richard Feynman

Born

May 11, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA

Died

February 15, 1988

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Biography

Richard Phillips Feynman 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.