2. Who is it?
• Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 –
February 15, 1988) was an American physicist
• work in the path integral formulation of
quantum mechanics
• the theory of quantum electrodynamics
3. Who is it?
• Feynman has been called the “Great
Explainer”
• His guiding principle was that if a topic could
not be explained in a freshman lecture, it was
not yet fully understood.
4. Feynman diagrams
• He also developed Feynman diagrams, a
bookkeeping device which helps in conceptualizing
and calculating interactions between particles in
spacetime, notably the interactions between
electrons and their antimatter
counterparts, positrons.
5. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman!": Adventures of a
Curious Character is an edited
collection of reminiscences by
the Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Richard Feynman. The
book, released in 1985, covers a
variety of instances in
Feynman's life.