Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was an American physicist. He studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos in 1942. From 1945 to 1950, he taught theoretical physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, and subsequently worked at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In 1965, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.