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'''Richard Feynman''' (1918-1988) was a leading American [[physicist]] and educator based at California Institute of Technology. He played a role in shaping modern [[quantum mechanics|quantum physics]], computer design, and nanotechnology.  He attracted a following for his college lectures on physics, which he published, and for his iconoclastic personality. He popularized physics with many short essays and talks, often talking about the pranks he loved to play.  

'''Richard Feynman''' (1918-1988) was a leading American [[physicist]] and educator based at California Institute of Technology. He played a role in shaping modern [[quantum mechanics|quantum physics]], computer design, and nanotechnology.  He attracted a following for his college lectures on physics, which he published, and for his iconoclastic personality. He popularized physics with many short essays and talks, often talking about the pranks he loved to play. Feynman was courageously critical of government engineers in how they handled, one might say covered up, negligence that caused the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster.

He credits his education in reading an encyclopedia when he was young, at the insistence of his father.<ref>Review of ''Classic Feynman:  All the Adventures of a Curious Character, by R.P. Feynman'' by Robert Matthews [http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/8/1391.pdf]</ref> After studying at [[M.I.T.]] and [[Princeton University]], he assisted in the development of the [[atomic bomb]] at [[Los Alamos]]. As an example of his extraordinary talent at [[mathematics]] by a physicist, Feynman became a very prestigious Putnam Fellow by scoring in the top five nationally on one of the early Putnam college math contests, in 1939.<ref>https://maa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/List-of-Previous-Putnam-Winners-through-2023.pdf</ref>

He credits his education in reading an encyclopedia when he was young, at the insistence of his father.<ref>Review of ''Classic Feynman:  All the Adventures of a Curious Character, by R.P. Feynman'' by Robert Matthews [http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/8/1391.pdf]</ref> After studying at [[M.I.T.]] and [[Princeton University]], he assisted in the development of the [[atomic bomb]] at [[Los Alamos]]. As an example of his extraordinary talent at [[mathematics]] by a physicist, Feynman became a very prestigious Putnam Fellow by scoring in the top five nationally on one of the early Putnam college math contests, in 1939.<ref>https://maa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/List-of-Previous-Putnam-Winners-through-2023.pdf</ref>