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Richard Phillips Feynman was born in the city of
New York, USA, on May 11, 1918. It was a
naughty child and so he continued always. At the age of 10
he started collecting old radio devices to
his electronics lab and by the age of 12 he was already assembling
their own devices.
He studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, continuing its career in the
Princeton University. He obtained his doctorate degree.
in Physics in 1942, with a work on electromagnetic waves supervised by a nuclear physicist
American John Wheeler. Among the audience were scientists such as Einstein, Pauli and
von Neumann.
Richard Feynman has gone down in history as one of the most important physicists of the 20th century.
for his work in the field of quantum electrodynamics which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics,
as well as incursions into the field of nanotechnology.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. It was awarded to him
awarded for a work he did to study the interactions and properties of particles
subatomic, for which I use the so-called Feynman diagrams, one of the most accurate theories
and deep in science, quantum electrodynamics. He also explored computing
quantum and the first developments in nanotechnology. He also received many other awards
important such as the Albert Einstein Award in 1954, the Lawrence Award in 1962, and the Medal
Oersted to teaching, in 1972.
We will discover in him a quirky, extravagant, vivacious character with a great sense of humor.
and with great admiration for the female body. Feynman was a genius capable of seeing the
simplicity of things that seem complicated. He had an extraordinary ability.
to appreciate the obvious.
Those who lived with him throughout his life became accustomed to his eccentricities, which were
in many cases, their way of finding out how and why things happen
It is striking that he was declared mentally deficient by a doctor from the US Army in
World War II and yet, he worked as a recent graduate in the design and development of the
atomic bomb in theManhattan ProjectIsolated in Los Álamos, he was bored. To distract himself
he blew open the army safes that held the secrets of the bomb and left
inside those boxes funny notes.
One of his hobbies, which he never hid, was his fondness for topless bars. He himself recounts
how he liked the atmosphere of this type of bar to relax. He would order a 7-up and enjoy.
from the visual panorama. Once relaxed, he used the napkins from the place to write his inspirations and
reflections.
His logical and keen mind sometimes led him to make decisions that were initially incomprehensible.
but in the medium term profitable and beneficial, like the time when Altadena, the region in which
lived, was destroyed by a fire. A few days later, she took out insurance against
floods. Feynman thought that the fire, by causing the erosion of the landscape, could facilitate
landslides and flooding. The flood occurred the following year after the winter rains.
destroying the houses in the neighborhood. The only one covered by insurance was the ingenious Feynman.
At the end of his life, a high-ranking official from NASA appointed him as one of the members in charge of
investigate the accident of the Space Shuttle Challenger. While the other members
They held meetings to study the problem, Feynman kept himself aloof from the beginning.
He dedicated himself to walking around the hangars, talking with the technicians and engineers of NASA,
asking even the most implausible. In front of the television cameras and journalists,
When it came time to give explanations about the accident, he asked for a glass of cold water.
He submerged a shuttle ring and showed that it did not recover due to the cold.
initial properties. That was his explanation, as it was extremely cold on the night of the launch.
His curious mind and intense desire to learn and discover led him to become interested, among other things
many things for the painting. On one occasion, they commissioned him to paint a picture for a house
of massages, but when going to deliver it, it turned out that the owner of this had been
detained. Feynman put his work back in the truck and, with his wife's blessing,
he began to visit the brothels of Pasadena (California) to try to sell it.
He also learned to play the bongos. He spent a few months in Brazil and joined a school.
of samba and participated in the Rio carnival.
Few people in history have been Nobel Prize winners for their achievements in theoretical physics, have painted
on behalf of a naked bullfighter woman, they have blown up army safes, they have explained
Physics to Einstein, they have touched the frying pan in Brazil and have been declared unfit for service.
military due to mental incapacity
Feynman died of cancer on February 15, 1988. Until 15 days before his passing,
was teaching classes.
