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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

RICHARD P. FEYNMAN

Title: Theoretical Physics Professor
Affiliation:   California Institute of Technology
    Pasadena, California 91109 USA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   1988
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Award Discipline:   Physical Sciences
Award Year:   1979
Citation:   "In recognition of his essential contributions to the quantum theory of radiation and to his illumination of behavior of constituents of the atom, of the atomic nucleus, and of the subnuclear particles."
    Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.
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Nobel Laureate:   Physics, 1965

 

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