Richard Phillips Feynman ForMemRS was an American theoretical physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide, he was ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time. He died of cancer on December 26, 2013 at age 98, in Los Angeles, California.
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Richard Phillips Feynman ForMemRS was an American theoretical physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide, he was ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time. He was a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. He is credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He also became known through his semi-autobiographical books Surely You’re Joking and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, and books written about him such as Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton and the biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feyn man by James Gleick. He died on December 25, 2013, at the age of 98. He leaves behind a wife, two daughters, a son and a daughter-in-law, and a stepson. He had a son, Michael, who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a daughter, Joan, who works as an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology. He wrote a book on quantum computing called Quantum Computing: The Theory of the Supercooled Liquid Helium. His daughter Joan is a prominent astronomer at the SETI Institute in California. His son Michael is the director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at California State University, San Francisco. He worked on the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a result of his work on the space shuttle Challenger disaster, which he helped to investigate.
He lived in Queens, New York City, with his wife, Lucille née Phillips, a homemaker, and his brother, Henry Phillips, who died at age four weeks. His parents were from Jewish families but not religious, and by his youth, he described himself as an “avowed atheist” He was disappointed with the lack of interest for nature outside the Jewish world expressed by the rabbis, and expressed his interest in the Talmud for the first time in a book called The Talmud, which contained the original text and commentaries written over time by different people over time. His father encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking, and who was always ready to teach him something new. His mother thought women lacked the capacity to understand such things, and Richard encouraged his sister Joan’s interest in astronomy, and Joan eventually became an astrophystsist. He never converted to Judaism, adding, ‘at 13 I not only converted to other religious views, but I also stopped believing that the chosen people are in any way ‘the chosen people of any way’ in any way.’ He died of cancer on December 26, 2013 at age 98, in Los Angeles, California. He left a wife and two daughters. He will be buried in the Los Angeles suburb of Long Beach.
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