Richard Feynman (1918-88), American physicist and Nobel laureate was born in New York City and was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists. At Princeton in 1942 Feynman worked on the early stages of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. atomic bomb development program. He continued this work throughout World War II at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics with two other physicists, the American Julian S. Schwinger and the Japanese Shin'ichiro Tomonaga. Feynman was cited for his research on the transformation of a photon into an electron and a positron and the discovery of a method of measuring the resulting changes in charge and mass. He played a prominent role on the presidential commission that investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. His writings for the general public include Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character and QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

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