- 1918: Born in New York City
- 1939: Receives BA in physics from MIT
- 1941: Begins working on ballistics for the Frankford Arsenal in Pennsylvania
- 1942: Begins working for the Manhattan Project
- 1942: Writes thesis titled The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics
- 1942: Receives PhD from Princeton University
- 1944: Begins teaching at Cornell University
- 1948: Delivers presentation titled Alternative Formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics that includes Feynman diagrams
- 1949: Writes The Theory of Positrons which proposes the Feynman propagator
- 1950: Begins teaching at Caltech
- 1958: Publishes QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- 1964: Publishes The Feynman Lectures on Physics
- 1965: Receives Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1985: Publishes Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- 1988: Died at age 69 in Los Angeles, California
Sources
Wikipedia: Richard Feynman, Caltech.edu
