Author

Richard P. Feynman

Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1965) and legendary Caltech teacher

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Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 and grew up in Far Rockaway, New York. At the age of seventeen he entered MIT and in 1939 went to Princeton, then to Los Alamos, where he joined in the effort to build the atomic bomb. Following World War II he joined the physics faculty at Cornell, then went on to Caltech in 1951, where he taught until his death in 1988. He shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, and served with distinction on the Shuttle Commission in 1986. A commemorative stamp in his name was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005.

Born1918 · New York City, USA

Notable works Six Easy PiecesSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!The Feynman Lectures on Physics

HonoursNobel Prize in Physics (1965)

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.— 1974 Caltech commencement address