Feynman

American

[fahyn-muhn] / ˈfaɪn mən /

noun

Richard Phillips, 1918–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.

Feynman British

/ ˈfaɪnmən /

noun

Richard . 1918–88, US physicist, noted for his research on quantum electrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1965

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Feynman Scientific

/ fīn′mən /

American physicist who developed the theory of quantum electrodynamics, laying the foundation for all other quantum field theories. His approach combined quantum mechanics and relativity theory, and exploited a method using diagrams of particle interactions to greatly simplify calculations. For this work he shared with American physicist Julian Schwinger and Japanese physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga the 1965 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Investors will be looking for more details on the company’s product road map, including updates on its Vera Rubin chip platform and following Feynman architecture.

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“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things,” Feynman said in 1981, “but I'm not absolutely sure of anything.”

From Salon

Noted theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, for one, was an apostle for it.

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Feynman even helped him with his algebra homework, he recalled.

From Los Angeles Times

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