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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Richard Feynman
| image = Richard_Feynman.jpg
| caption = Richard Feynman
| birth_date = 11 May 1918
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date = 15 February 1988
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| fields = Theoretical physics
| workplaces = Cornell University; California Institute of Technology
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Princeton University
| doctoral_advisor = John Archibald Wheeler
| known_for = Path integral formulation; Feynman diagrams; quantum electrodynamics; parton model
| awards = Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
}}

'''Richard Feynman''' (11 May 1918 - 15 February 1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in [[Physics:Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)|quantum electrodynamics]], the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and the visual diagrammatic methods now called [[Physics:Quantum Feynman diagrams|Feynman diagrams]]. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for fundamental work in QED.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/biographical/ |title=Richard P. Feynman - Biographical |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach |access-date=20 May 2026}}</ref>

Feynman developed a formulation of quantum theory in which amplitudes are obtained by summing over possible histories. This approach, known as the [[Physics:Quantum Path integral formulation|path integral formulation]], became a major tool in particle physics, statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics, and quantum field theory.

== Quantum electrodynamics ==
Feynman's diagrams turned complicated perturbative calculations into visual rules for interactions among particles and fields. In QED they represent the exchange of photons between charged particles, but the same diagrammatic logic spread into the broader language of [[Physics:Quantum field theory (QFT) basics|quantum field theory]].

Feynman also contributed to superfluidity, weak interactions, parton physics, quantum computing ideas, and science education. His lectures and public explanations made him one of the most recognizable physicists of the twentieth century.

== See also ==
* [[Physics:Quantum Path integral formulation]]
* [[Physics:Quantum Feynman diagrams]]
* [[Physics:Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)]]
* [[Biography:Julian Schwinger]]

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