Skip to main content
Feynman

Feynman

15 8.8
An American physicist who helped explain how light and small particles behave and made science popular
  • proper noun
  • /ˈfaɪnmən/
: Feynman
  • Richard Feynman showed that there really is only a single electron in the universe.
  • Richard Feynman
  • Feynman diagrams
  • physicist Feynman

So I would put Roger in the class of Feynman, Einstein, Dirac, Yang.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • So at that point, no one alive knew more than Richard Feynman about quantum mechanics.

  • In 1948, the physicist Feynman showed that temporal symmetry exists in particle/antiparticle trajectories.

  • This is the tool that allowed us to do that thing that Feynman described.

  • So this is the Feynman rule in coordinate space.

  • We can take a clue from a famous Feynman quote.

  • The concept of nanotechnology was first introduced in 1959 by Richard Feynman at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

    Academic text (2011)
  • When Richard Feynman lectured my freshman physics class, his explanations were wonderfully clear and simple.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In 1948, the physicist Richard Feynman showed that temporal symmetry exists in particle/antiparticle trajectories.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Many people regard Feynman as the greatest scientific genius of recent times.

  • We should aspire to Feynman's advice to accept nothing but the truth.

Synonyms

Richard Feynman
vsFeynman
4 5.7

An American physicist who helped develop quantum physics and made science easier to understand by writing and teaching

is shorter focusing mainly on work in quantum electrodynamics

Surface Forms

Feynman main

Etymology

Feynman probably comes from German or Yiddish parts Fein and man, with Fein meaning 'fine' and man meaning 'man'. A helpful way to remember Richard Feynman is to think of him as a 'fine man', a famous, friendly scientist known for clear teaching and the useful Feynman diagrams.