Richard P FeynmanRichard P. Feynman (1918-1988) earned a BS from MIT and a PhD from Princeton. From 1942 to 1945, he assisted with the development of the atomic bomb. He then taught at Cornell and Caltech, where he contributed to the theories of supefluidity and quarks. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Read More Read Less