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Feyman was too young for the really fundamental work on quantum mechanics. He won his Nobel prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. However, he created t
by cli 13y ago
Feyman was too young for the really fundamental work on quantum mechanics. He won his Nobel prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. However, he created the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, which can be thought of as another way of describing quantum mechanics.
- dnautics 13y agoyeah, I was thinking, uh, the path-integral formulation?? Which IIRC is still kind of mathematically ill-defined, but still. making a fundamental discovery is not necessary to be a 'great mind', I think. As the man himself said, 'what I cannot create, I do not understand'.
- abecedarius 13y agoIt's worth mentioning that the path-integral formulation had a seed in Dirac: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation