From May 11, 1918 until March 15, 1988, Richard Feynman was thinking about physics. He made many contributions both large and small throughout his life, from working on the Manhattan Project, to winning the Nobel Prize. Richard Feynman was born to Melville and Lucille Feynman in Far Rockaway, New York on Mya 11th, 1918 and began his fascination with physics. His father can take a good amount of credit for this as he set out to stimulate Richard to think …showed first 75 words of 1950 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1950 total…lifetime, but he still kept working to solve new problems in physics. The mystery of the Challenger explosion could have gone on unsolved for months longer had he not done his experiment. The Atomic Bomb may not have been finished in time to have been used, or a plant that was producing the plutonium to be used could have blown up because they didn't know how to properly store and take care of the plutonium.