feynman in English
noun
family name; Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist who made major contributions to the field of quantum mechanics, the 1965 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Use "feynman" in a sentence
1. It was the technique of Feynman diagrams.
2. Feynman served as doctoral advisor to 31 students.
3. After the success of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman turned to quantum gravity.
4. This was the thing the Feynman diagrams were for.
5. Feynman let them have it -- both barrels, right between the eyes.
6. 24 The method is described in an article by Feynman et al.
7. 24 There is something very American about Feynman breaking into safes during the Manhattan Project.
8. In 2015 Gates made a video on why he thought Feynman was special.
9. The students went there in advance, and arranged that they'd all order Feynman sandwiches.
10. Feynman was considered for a seat on the President's Science Advisory Committee, but was not appointed.
11. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense -- phoniness, false sophistication, jargon.
12. Feynman provided a quantum-mechanical explanation for the Soviet physicist Lev Landau's theory of superfluidity.
13. First used by quantum physicist Richard Feynman, it has generally been applied to subatomic particles.
14. So it occurs to the Atemporal Feynman that he may, or may not, have a problem.
15. The Atemporal Richard Feynman is not very paper-friendly, because he lives in a network culture
16. Feynman decided, as a sort of amateur helium physicist, that he would try to figure it out.
17. In Brazil, Feynman was impressed with samba music, and learned to play a metal percussion instrument, the frigideira.
18. When Feynman was 15, he taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus.
19. The truth of the matter is that a Feynman sandwich had a load of ham, but absolutely no baloney.
20. Feynman carefully worked through the problem again, applying the path integral formulation that he had used in his thesis.
21. 6 When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents.
22. 14 Richard Feynman, said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times, stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics.
23. He and Bethe developed the Bethe–Feynman formula for calculating the yield of a fission bomb, which built upon previous work by Robert Serber.
24. More precisely, and technically, a Feynman diagram is a graphical representation of a perturbative contribution to the transition amplitude or correlation function of a quantum mechanical or statistical field theory.
25. Stan Ulam, Richard Feynman and John von Neumann. And it was Von Neumann who said, after the bomb, he was working on something much more important than bombs: he's thinking about computers.
26. In a Feynman diagram, each matter particle is represented as a straight line (see world line) traveling through time, which normally increases up or to the right in the diagram.
27. Glossary of Cosmology Principles "If it disagrees with experiment, its wrong." - Physics Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman Science Based Cosmology is limited to ideas meeting the minimum criteria for a scientific claim.
28. Other predictions of an end to the periodic table include at element 128 by John Emsley, at element 137 by Richard Feynman, at element 146 by Yogendra Gambhir, and at element 155 by Albert Khazan.
29. Feynman claimed to be the only person to see the explosion without the very dark glasses or welder's lenses provided, reasoning that it was safe to look through a truck windshield, as it would screen out the harmful ultraviolet radiation.
30. This is the first volume of the lectures presented at the Clay Mathematics Institute 2014 Summer School, “Periods and Motives: Feynman Amplitudes in the 21st century”, which took place at the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas–ICMAT (Institute of Mathematical Sciences) in Madrid, Spain.