Richard Feynman
Awards & Honours
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Awards Won
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Honours
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Rankings
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Covers
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Records
Feynman is consistently ranked among the greatest physicists of the 20th century. In a 1999 poll of physicists by Physics World, he was voted one of the top ten physicists of all time. TIME magazine included him in their 1999 list of the 100 Most Important People of the Century in the Scientists & Thinkers category. His name is attached to fundamental concepts: Feynman diagrams, the Feynman path integral, and the Feynman point. A crater on the Moon and asteroid 7495 Feynman bear his name. The Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology is awarded annually in his honor.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Elected for contributions to physics.
Foreign Member, Royal Society
Elected as a foreign member.
Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
Annual prize named in his honor for nanotechnology research.
Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Established at Caltech to recognize outstanding teaching.
Feynman Crater
Crater on the Moon named after him.
Asteroid 7495 Feynman
Main-belt asteroid named in his honor.
Rankings & Lists
Top 10 Greatest Physicists of All Time
TIME 100: Most Important People of the Century
Magazine Covers
TIME
1965-11-05
Nobel Prize Winners
Scientific American
1965-12-01
Quantum Electrodynamics
Physics Today
1986-03-01
Challenger Investigation
Records & Feats
Youngest group leader in the theoretical division of the Manhattan Project
At age 25, Feynman was appointed group leader at Los Alamos, overseeing a team of physicists.
Developed the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics
Feynman's 1948 formulation provided a new framework for quantum theory, now fundamental to modern physics.
Introduced Feynman diagrams
His pictorial representation of particle interactions revolutionized quantum field theory and is used universally.
Delivered the foundational lecture on nanotechnology
His 1959 talk 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' is considered the intellectual origin of nanotechnology.