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Richard Feynman

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q38104&amp;oldid=2554687416" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nobel Prize in Physics · dated 1965
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q2743592&amp;oldid=2495124289" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Surely You&#39;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q49115&amp;oldid=2556215522" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cornell University · from 1945 · to 1950
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5434604&amp;oldid=2525792749" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Far Rockaway High School · from 1931 · to 1935
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1351451&amp;oldid=2492245029" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oersted Medal · dated 1972
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q682339&amp;oldid=2525352910" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Wikidata describes Richard Feynman as American theoretical physicist (1918–1988).

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