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.