Richard Feynman an American physicist born in New York City on May 11, 1918. He grew up in Far Rockaway, Manhattan Feynman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continued his studies at Princeton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1942 with a thesis supervised by John Wheeler. His thesis was on advanced waves, which is the theory of electromagnetic waves that travel backwards in time. His first lecture at Princeton on the …showed first 75 words of 340 total…

…showed last 75 words of 340 total…took the o-ring situation into consideration after it was brought up in conversation by a friend already aware of the o-ring problem in order to protect himself. In the early 1980s, Feynman developed an abdominal cancer. After a five-year fight, Feynman died in 1988 at the age of 69. Though not fond of awards and honors Feynman was the recipient of numerous during his lifetime It is also a fact that he was an emotional bongo player.