Speech Title: "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
Dr. Richard Phillips Feynman (1918 - 1988) was born in Manhattan, New York City on May 11th 1918.
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Academic Performance
During Feynman's academic years he would study on his own mathematics and science because his father wanted him to become a physics teacher. Feynman also setup his own labrotory at home to experiment with electricty. Feynman developed his own mathematical notation for sin, cos, tan, and f(x). Feynman attended Far Rockaway High School and during his last year won the New York University Math Championship. After completing high school he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being turned down by other universities because of his grades and Jewish background. In 1935, Feynman entered MIT and in 1939 obtained his Bachelor's degree in physics. In 1942, Feynman received his doctorate from Princeton after working on the atomic bomb in (1941-1942). After receiving his doctorate he went to Los Alamos to continue working on the atomic bomb. Feynman was then appointed to head of the theoretical division. In 1945, Feynman again was appointed as a professor of theoretical physics at Cornell University. Five years following, Feynman accepted the position as professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. In 1965, Feynman was well-known because of his developement of quantum electrodynamics. Through this work he invented (what are known today as) "Feynman Diagrams," and this invention is the reason he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Tragically Feynman died of abdominal cancer at the Los Angeles Medical Center in 1988. Richard P. Feynman will always be remembered because he gave us an invitation to enter a new field of physics.