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Richard Feynman , born on May 11, 1918 in Queens, was an American physicist, writer, engineer, politician, and inventor. He held United States citizenship and was educated at Far Rockaway High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University. Feynman was known under the pseudonym "Ofey" and his full name was Richard Phillips Feynman.
Feynman's doctoral advisor was John Archibald Wheeler, and he guided the careers of several doctoral students, including George Zweig, James M. Bardeen, Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, Albert Hibbs, Thomas Curtright, Henry Hilton, Marvin Chester, and Laurie Brown.
Feynman was responsible for several notable works, including the Feynman diagram, Feynman–Kac formula, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Hellmann–Feynman theorem, The Character of Physical Law, Cargo Cult Press, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Feynman slash notation, Feynman parametrization, Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory, Feynman sprinkler, Six nines in pi, Feynman checkerboard, and the Bethe–Feynman formula.
Feynman was located in the United States and was a founder of the Manhattan Project. He received the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the field. Richard Feynman passed away on February 15, 1988, in Los Angeles.