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Alexander King
Salt Lake Community College
Richard Feynman in todays society is regarded as being one of the most highly
admired and most important physicist in Quantum Mechanics, making a huge
contribution in our understanding of the workings of Quantum Mechanics and its
importance in understanding the world around us. Richard Feynman was given the
gift to explore nature to the point where it was nearly impossible to comprehend for
any other human being. In short Feynman gave us ways of probabilistically locating
an electron or particle.
On May 11, 1918 Richard Feynman was born in Queens New York. During his
teenage years he became really passionate about mathematics and started to excel
at both Differential and Integral Calculus. Any time he would do mathematics he
would try to unveil new methods or new techniques that werent even thought of
yet. More or less, Feynman was interested towards Theoretical Physics and more
abstract Mathematics. Feynman was said to take different methods on mathematics
in seemingly different ways. He was also mentioned to have a certain amount of
pleasure from doing mathematics on his free time. During his free-time, Feynman
would study Trigonometry, Differential and Integral Calculus along with complex
numbers.
As a child, Richard Feynman was raised by both Lucille and Melville Feynman whom
of which were Jewish. It was stated from Richardss father that his son would one
day become a scientist. During his early childhood, Feynman lived in Far Rockaway,
which is a small village on Long Islands southern shore. As his life went on, Richard
was taught the importance of how to read certain patterns and how to also ask the
correct questions that nature gives him. Richard was considered to be highly elastic,
but was known for his disregard of standards. At about the age of 11 he had done
much experimentation with electricity and was soon known throughout the town for
his ability to create and repair radio devices. As the years progressed Feynman had
gained his passion for solving rigorous puzzles; much of which Feynman was
After his teaching at Cornell University, Feynman had moved on to work at California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California where he would soon create some of
his finest work on Theoretical Physics. While at Caltech, Feynman researched
Quantum Electrodynamics, Physics of Super fluidity, and models of weak decay.
Richard Feynmans ground-breaking discovery in quantum mechanics came to be
known today as The Principle of Least Action, in which he acquired Maxwells wave
model of electromagnetics and transformed that model on particle interactions
which would help mapping space-time. However, his greatest achievement was his
theory of Quantum Electrodynamics which describes how light interacts with
matter, and also a description of anti-matter. Richard Feynman was awarded the
Nobel Prize in 1965 for the discovery of his theory of Quantum Electrodynamics,
after receiving the award he mentions that the award was a pain in the neck in
which he grew concerned about the potential loss of his reputation. Feynman was
given new standing in which he was given an important task in investigating the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and later proved that a frozen O-shaped ring was
the cause of the disaster. A few years later in 1988, Feynman died from cancer
disease.
To Conclude, Richard Feynman was without a doubt one of the most successful and
influential scientists of all time, Feynman has also made a huge impact on the
modern understanding of Quantum Mechanics and especially Quantum
Electrodynamics in which we can understand a lot more about the interaction of
light and particles. It was from his great curiosity and perseverance that led him to
this discovery. Of anybody in this world Feynman was considered the Einstein of
Quantum Mechanics in his methodical way of describing the nature of