Richard Feynman

May 11, 1918 (108 years old)

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.