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5\name{Richard}{Feynman}
6\title{Theoretical physicist}
7\extrainfo{Born 11 May 1918, Queens, New York City. Died 15 February 1988.}
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9\makecvtitle
10\section{Education}
11\cventry{1942}{PhD}{Princeton University}{}{}{Thesis: \emph{The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics}, advised by John Archibald Wheeler; the groundwork for the path integral formulation and Feynman diagrams.}
12\cventry{1939}{Bachelor's degree, physics}{Massachusetts Institute of Technology}{}{}{Senior thesis: \emph{Forces in Molecules}, whose main result is the Hellmann--Feynman theorem.}
13\section{Experience}
14\cventry{1952}{Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics}{California Institute of Technology}{Pasadena}{}{%
15\begin{itemize}%
16\item A quantum-mechanical explanation of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium.
17\item With Murray Gell-Mann, a model of weak decay as a combination of vector and axial currents.
18\item The parton model of nucleon scattering.
19\item \emph{The Feynman Lectures on Physics} (1961--1964), from three years of undergraduate teaching.
20\item ``There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'' (1959), on machines built at the scale of atoms.
21\end{itemize}}
22\cventry{1951--1952}{Courses}{Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas F\'isicas}{Rio de Janeiro}{}{}
23\cventry{1945--1949}{Physics}{Cornell University}{Ithaca, New York}{}{Feynman diagrams, first shown at the Pocono Conference in 1948, and papers in \emph{Physical Review} from 1949 to 1951, among them ``The Theory of Positrons''. From 1950 papers using the diagrams became prevalent; computer programs were later written to evaluate them, and quantum field theory was used for high-precision predictions.}
24\cventry{1943--1945}{Group leader, Theoretical Division}{Los Alamos Laboratory}{New Mexico}{}{With Hans Bethe, the Bethe--Feynman formula for the yield of a fission bomb. IBM punched cards were used for computation. At Oak Ridge, safety procedures for storing enriched uranium.}
25\section{Other work}
26\cvitem{1980s}{Summers at Thinking Machines Corporation, on some of the first parallel supercomputers and on the construction of quantum computers.}
27\cvitem{1986}{Rogers Commission on the Space Shuttle \emph{Challenger} disaster. In a televised hearing, the O-ring material was shown to lose resilience in ice-cold water. The commission found that the primary O-ring had not sealed in unusually cold weather.}
28\end{document}
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Richard Feynman | Theoretical
physicist
Born 11 May 1918, Queens, New York City. Died 15 February 1988.
Education
Princeton University
PhD 1942
Thesis: The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics, advised by John Archibald Wheeler; the groundwork
for the path integral formulation and Feynman diagrams.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s degree, physics 1939
Senior thesis: Forces in Molecules, whose main result is the Hellmann–Feynman theorem.
Experience
California Institute of Technology Pasadena
Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics 1952
A quantum-mechanical explanation of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium.
With Murray Gell-Mann, a model of weak decay as a combination of vector and axial currents.
The parton model of nucleon scattering.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961–1964), from three years of undergraduate teaching.
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (1959), on machines built at the scale of atoms.
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas Rio de Janeiro
Courses 1951–1952
Cornell University Ithaca, New York
Physics 1945–1949
Feynman diagrams, first shown at the Pocono Conference in 1948, and papers in Physical Review from 1949 to
1951, among them “The Theory of Positrons”. From 1950 papers using the diagrams became prevalent; computer
programs were later written to evaluate them, and quantum field theory was used for high-precision predictions.
Los Alamos Laboratory New Mexico
Group leader, Theoretical Division 1943–1945
With Hans Bethe, the Bethe–Feynman formula for the yield of a fission bomb. IBM punched cards were used for
computation. At Oak Ridge, safety procedures for storing enriched uranium.
Other work
1980s: Summers at Thinking Machines Corporation, on some of the first parallel supercomputers and
on the construction of quantum computers.
1986: Rogers Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In a televised hearing, the O-ring
material was shown to lose resilience in ice-cold water. The commission found that the primary O-ring
had not sealed in unusually cold weather.