Richard Feynman
1918 – 1988 · United States · Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1965
QED, nanotechnology's founding lecture, and the Challenger diagnosis.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped Richard Feynman, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Emmy Noether
1882 – 1935 · Mathematics, Physics
Noether's theorem — symmetry yields conservation — organises modern field theory.
- Werner Heisenberg
1901 – 1976 · Physics
Feynman's path integral is a third formulation beside matrix and wave mechanics.
Passed the work to1
- Peter Higgs
1929 – 2024 · Physics
Gauge field theory as Feynman helped formalise it is the setting for the Higgs mechanism.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Physics, 1965
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
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Internet Archive · Primary source
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WorldCat (OCLC) · Archive
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