Richard P. Feynman






Richard P. Feynman

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born
May 11, 1918

died
February 15, 1988

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Science, Biographies & Memoirs


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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly ...more




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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feyn... Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 4.25 — 3,482 ratings — published 1985
30 editions
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What Do You Care What Other Pe... What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 4.21 — 1,130 ratings — published 1988
18 editions
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of... Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 4.05 — 631 ratings — published 1962
14 editions
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The Pleasure Of Finding Things... The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 4.13 — 452 ratings — published 1999
14 editions
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QED: The Strange Theory of Lig... QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 4.14 — 425 ratings — published 1986
10 editions
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The Feynman Lectures on Physic... The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition
by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
avg rating 4.51 — 299 ratings — published 1963
56 editions
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The Meaning Of It All: Thought... The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 3.96 — 283 ratings — published 1998
10 editions
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The Pleasure of Finding Things... The Pleasure of Finding Things Out/The Meaning of It All
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 4.23 — 182 ratings — published 2002
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einste... Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry And Space-Time
by Richard P. Feynman
avg rating 3.98 — 193 ratings — published 1997
9 editions
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviation... Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman
avg rating 4.06 — 158 ratings — published 2005
7 editions
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"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
Richard P. Feynman
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"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
Richard P. Feynman
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"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."
Richard P. Feynman (QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter)
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