Richard Feynman Institution Richard Feynman was born on the eleventh day of May 1918, in Queens, New York City. His parents were Lucille nee Philips and Melvin Arthur Feynman who was a homemaker and a sales manager respectively, and they were both Lithuanian Jews. He attended Far Rockaway High School in Queens and enrolled in Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University as an adult. Feynman was a late bloomer, in other words, he was not able to talk until his third birthday, and when he did speak, and he developed a New York accent even as an adult. However, some of his friends teased him about this and also called him a "bum." He had a strict and straight to the point father who often urged him to think outside the box and challenge conventional thinking. Furthermore, the father was always there for him, ready to teach him new things and test his intellect. The mother, on the other hand, was a calm and collected woman. Feynman gained a sense of humor from her which he maintained most of his adult life. As a young kid, Feynman had a liking for engineering. He had an experimental laboratory built in his home where he repaired broken radios. At one point, Feynman created an alarm burglar system. Several years later, in 1941, Feynman was involved in the Manhattan project where he aided the engineers working there by devising safety procedures for material storage (Kelly, 2009). The Manhattan Project was an experiment done by Robert R. Wilson who sought to produce enriched Uranium for use in an atomic bomb. He also received a Ph.D. in 1942 from Princeton University. While alive, he was regarded as the brightest, powerful and radical individual especially in the era of post-world war II. While doing his Ph.D., he married his first wife Arline Greenbaum, who later died in 1945. After the death of his wife, Richard occupied himself with the Manhattan project which he was introduced to by Robert Wilson. Hans Bethe made him the group leader and this mission formed a foundation for him. He calculated neutron equations for a water boiler to assess how close a particular assembly of fissile material was becoming critical. He later transferred to Oak Ridge where he helped engineers to calculate the safety procedures in storing documents. He then moved and worked in different places and capacities including Cornell University. In 1952, he married his second wife, Mary Louise. In 1965, Richard won the physics Nobel Prize, has changed the field of Quantum Mechanics and formulated the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Apart from physics, Richard was known for his good jokes and ever jovial mood. Contributions of Richard Feynman Richard Feynman is known for his work as a theoretical physicist. He made his mark as an original scientist, contributing to some jobs such as the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium (Gri.

1. Richard Feynman
Institution
Richard Feynman was born on the eleventh day of May 1918, in
Queens, New York City. His parents were Lucille nee Philips
and Melvin Arthur Feynman who was a homemaker and a sales
manager respectively, and they were both Lithuanian Jews. He
attended Far Rockaway High School in Queens and enrolled in
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University
as an adult. Feynman was a late bloomer, in other words, he was
not able to talk until his third birthday, and when he did speak,
and he developed a New York accent even as an adult. However,
some of his friends teased him about this and also called him a
"bum." He had a strict and straight to the point father who often
urged him to think outside the box and challenge conventional
thinking.
Furthermore, the father was always there for him, ready to teach
him new things and test his intellect. The mother, on the other
hand, was a calm and collected woman. Feynman gained a sense
of humor from her which he maintained most of his adult life.
As a young kid, Feynman had a liking for engineering.
He had an experimental laboratory built in his home where he
repaired broken radios. At one point, Feynman created an alarm
burglar system. Several years later, in 1941, Feynman was
involved in the Manhattan project where he aided the engineers
working there by devising safety procedures for material
storage (Kelly, 2009). The Manhattan Project was an experiment
done by Robert R. Wilson who sought to produce enriched
Uranium for use in an atomic bomb. He also received a Ph.D. in
1942 from Princeton University. While alive, he was regarded
as the brightest, powerful and radical individual especially in
the era of post-world war II. While doing his Ph.D., he married
his first wife Arline Greenbaum, who later died in 1945.

2. After the death of his wife, Richard occupied himself with the
Manhattan project which he was introduced to by Robert
Wilson. Hans Bethe made him the group leader and this mission
formed a foundation for him. He calculated neutron equations
for a water boiler to assess how close a particular assembly of
fissile material was becoming critical. He later transferred to
Oak Ridge where he helped engineers to calculate the safety
procedures in storing documents. He then moved and worked in
different places and capacities including Cornell University. In
1952, he married his second wife, Mary Louise. In 1965,
Richard won the physics Nobel Prize, has changed the field of
Quantum Mechanics and formulated the theory of quantum
electrodynamics. Apart from physics, Richard was known for
his good jokes and ever jovial mood.
Contributions of Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman is known for his work as a theoretical
physicist. He made his mark as an original scientist,
contributing to some jobs such as the theory of quantum
electrodynamics, the path integral formulation of quantum
mechanics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled
liquid helium (Gribbin & Gribbin, 2018). Furthermore, he added
his idea of the parton model when he was working on particle
physics.

3. The liquid helium is in the superfluid phase. A thin invisible
film creeps up the inside wall of the cup and down on the
outside. A drop forms.
Feynman also had a hand in quantum gravity. Here, he
explained the analogy of the photon, which has spin 1, by
examining the consequences of a free massless spin two field
(Feynman, 2010). He further derived the Einstein field equation
of general relativity which was used later during the
experiment. Feynman found a computational device that would
prove invaluable when explaining the quantum particle behavior
of the Yang-Mills theories such as the electro-weak theory and
the quantum chromodynamics. Additionally, he also worked on
the forces of nature; the strong force, electromagnetic, weak
force, and gravity.
In conclusion, Feynman received many awards, one of them
being the Albert Einstein Award in 1954. He later accepted the
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1962. However, Feynman
marked his glittering career with a Nobel Prize in Physics which
he won for his work in quantum electrodynamics, especially
when he and his colleagues deep-plowed the consequences of
elementary particles. Lastly, he was a Foreign Member of the
Royal Society in 1965 where he won the Oersted Medal in 1972
and the National Medal of Science in 1979. He died on 15th
February 1988 at the age of 69.
References
Feynman, R. (2010). Richard Feynman. Quantum Algebra and
Symmetry, 680.
Gribbin, J., & Gribbin, M. (2018). Richard Feynman: A life in
science. Icon Books.
Kelly, C. C. (2009). Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic

4. Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and
Historians. Black Dog & Leventhal.
Physics 110 Spring 2019
Physics Research Poster Project
Goals:
· Learn about a notable scientist and the physics ideas they
contributed to the world.
· Practice research and presentation skills.
· Create an interesting, informative poster and present it at the
Academic Showcase.
Expectations:
The text on your poster will have 3 sections:
1. A short biographical summary
2. A list of the scientist’s significant accomplishments,
inventions, and contributions,,M
3. An explanation of one of the scientist’s contributions to
physics
Your poster needs to include at least 3 pictures:
1. A picture of the scientist
2. A picture illustrating one or more projects the scientist
worked on
3. A picture illustrating the physics contribution described in
your 3rd section of text
Your poster also needs to include the following:
1. Title containing the name of the scientist
2. Reference list including at least 3 different sources of
information you used
3. Picture captions that identify what the pictures show
(indicating how they are relevant to the information in the
poster) and give the sources of the pictures
Your poster will be presented in the GRC Academic Showcase

5. near the end of the quarter.
Tasks:
Weeks 1-2: Research and Notes
· Choose a lesser known scientist who made important
contributions to the field of physics. Some examples are listed
on the last page of these instructions. Try to choose someone
that you feel like you can relate to in some way.
· Read about your chosen scientist from at least 3 different
reputable sources.
· The information you will include in your poster should come
from sources that are not Wikipedia, but you may start from
Wikipedia to read a summary of the person’s life and
contributions, as well as links to other sources. You need at
least 3 reliable sources that are not Wikipedia.
· Take notes from your reading. Write down anything that you
find particularly interesting about the person’s life and the work
they did. These will help you write the biographical section for
your poster. Include notes to yourself to help you find where
you got that information from again later.
· Learn about the person’s major contributions to science. Make
a list of short descriptive summaries of these contributions.
These will become bullet points on your poster.
Weeks 2-3: Rough Drafts
· Choose one major contribution to explain more thoroughly in
your poster. Write 2-4 paragraphs explaining this contribution.
This may require you to find additional sources of information;
make sure you note where all of your information comes from
as you go.
· Your explanation should include information that answers the
following questions:
· What did the person discover or invent?
· Why is this important? How did this help advance the field of
physics?

6. · How did the person discover or invent this?
· Write your biographical summary as either 1-2 paragraphs or a
list of key events. This section should answer these questions:
· When did this person live?
· Where did they live? What country were they from?
· What interesting events influenced them?
· Turn in what you have written on Canvas as a Word document
or other text file, and also print a copy, double-spaced, that you
will take to the writing center or an English instructor, along
with other work, in a later step. What you are turning in should
be drafts of the 3 sections of text for the poster.
Weeks 4-5: Revisions
· Revise and refine your text. Your goal now is to make your
writing brief, interesting, and informative. Eliminate
unnecessary words and phrases, and see if you can make the
same ideas clear with fewer words. When you are done, your
physics explanation should be only 1-2 paragraphs. Your
biographical summary should be brief, easy to read, and
interesting. In your list of other accomplishments, each item
should be short and clear. Print your revised work, double
spaced.
· Take the revised version, along with your original text, to the
writing center or an English instructor to help you edit the
revised work. Anyone who helps you edit your work is your
editor. The reason for taking your original paragraphs is so that
your editor can check for any important information that you
might have left out of the new version or that is unclear in the
new version.
· Ask your editor(s) to help you make sure your revised work is
clear, concise, and informative.
· Ask an editor with good grammar, spelling, and punctuation
skills to check your work for errors and help you correct them.
· Ask your editor(s) to sign the pages they checked, to let your
instructor know that they checked your work.

7. Week 6: Layout and Design
· Find at least one picture that you can use in your poster that
illustrates the major contribution that you explained. Make sure
you cite the source of the picture.
· Find one or more pictures that illustrate other work the
scientist did.
· Find a picture of the scientist that you can use in your poster.
Make sure you cite the source of the picture.
· Create a draft of the poster in a PowerPoint slide or in a
different program that allows you to create a printable poster
layout with both text and pictures.
· Include a section on your poster that lists references/citations.
Follow appropriate citation guidelines.
· Submit your proposed layout on Canvas in electronic format
(.ppt, GSLIDES, or .pdf are preferred formats).
Week 7: Final Check and Revision
· Print your draft on a regular piece of paper to bring to class
for peer feedback.
· Use feedback from other people to revise and polish your
poster. Have someone check your final version for errors before
printing.
· Get your poster printed either using one of the plotters on
campus (uses print points) or at a print shop (costs money). It
should be large enough to make all text and pictures clear to
someone standing several feet away; at least 2’x3’.
Notable scientists
Here are some lesser known scientists who have made important
contributions to the field of physics and closely related fields,
along with some topics to which they contributed. You are not
required to choose from this list, but if you choose someone

8. who is not on this list, please check with your instructor.
Émilie du Châtelet – Newtonian Mechanics, Energy
Anna Mani – Solar Radiation, Ozone and Wind Energy
Instrumentation
Grace Hopper – Computer Science, Programming Languages,
Debugging
Emmy Noether – Abstract Algebra, Conservation Laws and
Symmetries
Hedwig Kohn – Radiometry
Rosalind Franklin – Crystallography
Lise Meitner – Nuclear Physics
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Astrophysics
Robbie Hood – Atmospheric Science, Unmanned Aircraft
Systems
Chien-Shiung Wu – Manhattan Project, Parity Violation, Beta
Decay
Ayanna Howard – Planetary Rovers, Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Vision, Robotics
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson – Math and Orbital
Mechanics
Shirley Ann Jackson – Telecommunications
Valerie Thomas – Electronics, Image Processing
Mary Somerville – Celestial Mechanics, Unity of the Sciences
Satyendra Nath Bose – Quantum Physics
Michael Faraday – Electricity and Magnetism
Moshkagundam Visvesvaraya – Engineering: Water Supply and
Drainage
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan – Astrophysics
Herman Branson – Biophysics: Protein Molecular Structures,
Sickle Cells
James Clerk Maxwell – Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics,
Photography, Nuclear Energy
Narinder Singh Kapany – Fiberoptics
Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham – Math, Optics
Nasir Al-Din al-Tusi – Planetary Orbits

9. Democritus – Atomic Theory
Ismail al-Jazari – Mechanical Engineering,
John Bardeen – Electrical Transistor, Superconductivity
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman – Acoustics of Musical
Instruments, Light Scattering
Leo Szilard – Nuclear Physics
Acharya J.C. Bose – Radio and Microwave Optics, Botany:
Crescograph
Links to lists of other contributors to physics:
https://scientificwomen.net/field/physics-7
https://scientificwomen.net/field/astronomy-1
https://www.famousscientists.org/top-physicists/
https://www.famousscientists.org/top-astronomers/