THE LIFE OF RICHARD

FEYNMAN
By: Yaron Taylor
 EARLY LIFE
• Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City on the 11th May 1918.
• studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his B.Sc. in 1939
•  at Princeton University where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. 
• He was a Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), 
• Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University (1945-1950), 
• Visiting Professor and thereafter appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of
Technology (1950-1959)
 AUTHOR
•Books published:
•Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
•Six easy pieces Essentials of Physics 
•QED: The strange Theory of Light 
•The pleasure of finding things out
•What do you care what other people Think? 
•The character of Physical Law
•Perfectly reasonable 
•Feynman’s Lost Lecture: The Motion
•The Feynman lectures on Physics 
•Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character 
 AWARDS
• Albert Einstein Award (1954, Princeton)
• Einstein Award (Albert Einstein Award College of Medicine)
• Lawrence Award (1962)
 
• Nobel peace Prize in 1965
 QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
•Describes how light interacts with matter and how charged particles interact with each other.
•Electrons repel one another because of photon exchange 
•In the diagram below
• the straight lines are electrons
• the wavy lines are photon
 ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES
•Electromagnetic force is a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged
particles.
•Electromagnetic force can be attractive and repulsive
•In the diagram below
• In the positive atom, the forces push out from the positive ions 
• In the negative atom, the forces push toward the negative ions
 FEATURED IN BIG BANG THEORY
• https://youtu.be/XWFfMM_db3k?t=133
 SOURCES
• https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/biographical/