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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.
Awards & recognition
- National Medal of Science · 1979
- Niels Bohr International Gold Medal · 1973
- Oersted Medal · 1972
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society · 1965
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1965
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- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award · 1962
- Albert Einstein Award · 1954
- Putnam Fellow · 1939
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1965 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1964 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1963 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1962 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1960 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1957 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 1956 · nominated
