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Books by Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was an American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, developed the Feynman diagram as a tool for particle physics, and spent most of his career at Caltech. He was celebrated as a teacher and science communicator and wrote several books including QED, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman. He died of kidney cancer in 1988.