Feynman remained at Cornell from 1945 to 1951. While at Los Alamos, Feynman became good friends with Hans Bethe, who at the end of the war secured a position for Feynman as an associate professor of physics at Cornell. He was transferred to Los Alamos in 1942, where he headed a team undertaking complicated calculations using very primitive computers. While still at Princeton, Feynman was recruited for the atomic bomb project.

He was awarded his PhD in 1942 for his thesis on the least action principle. He then attended Princeton University as a Proctor Fellow from 1940 to 1942, where he began his investigation of quantum electrodynamics under the supervision of J. In 1939, he received his BS degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He grew up and attended high school in Far Rockaway, New York. Feynman was born in the borough of Queens in New York City on May 11, 1918. Later in his life Feynman became a prominent public figure through his association with the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger explosion and the publication of two best-selling books of personal recollections. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, together with J. As a part of this work he invented what came to be known as 'Feynman Diagrams,' visual representations of space-time particle interactions. Physicist Richard Feynman won his scientific renown through the development of quantum electrodynamics, or QED, a theory describing the interaction of particles and atoms in radiation fields.

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