Richard P Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), for which he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. He contributed to the Manhattan Project during World War II, developed Feynman diagrams, and later gained public fame as a member of the Rogers Commission investigating the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.[1][2][3]