Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988) was a Nobel prize winning physicist – professor of theoretical physics at 'CalTech': the California Institute of Technology. He worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan project (the development of the U.S. atomic bomb) during World War 2, and later became well known for his work on aspects of quantum physics as well as his writings about science. He was part of the Presidential Commission that was set up to investigate the Challenger disaster – the destruction of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after take off with the deaths of its crew members (including school teacher Christa McAuliffe who was scheduled to present lessons form orbit). Feynman diagrams are named after Feynman who developed them as a tool for thinking about subatomic interactions.
