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Portrait of Richard Feynman

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Richard Feynman

1918 – 1988aged 69

Shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for quantum electrodynamics and drew the diagrams physicists still use to think with. Worked on the Manhattan Project, cracked safes for fun, played bongos, and exposed the O-ring failure behind the Challenger disaster with a glass of ice water.

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