Richard Feynman

Developed Feynman diagrams and quantum electrodynamics (QED).

Core Principles & Analysis

• Shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for quantum electrodynamics.
• Worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II.
• Demonstrated the cause of the Challenger disaster by dunking an O-ring in ice water at the 1986 hearings.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1918 – 1988