Q 01/05

Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and which Japanese physicist?

A) Shin'ichiro Tomonaga

B) Hideki Yukawa

C) Yoichiro Nambu

D) Masatoshi Koshiba

Answer · why

A) Shin'ichiro Tomonaga

All three had independently tamed the infinities in quantum electrodynamics; Freeman Dyson later showed their methods were equivalent.

Q 02/05

Feynman's Nobel Prize recognised his fundamental work in which theory?

A) General relativity

B) Superconductivity

C) Quantum electrodynamics

D) Nuclear fission

Answer · why

C) Quantum electrodynamics

Quantum electrodynamics is the theory of how light and matter interact; his rebuilt version got rid of the meaningless infinite answers the older one ...

Q 03/05

Feynman grew up in Far Rockaway, which lies in which New York City borough?

A) Brooklyn

B) Queens

C) The Bronx

D) Manhattan

Answer · why

B) Queens

Queens is where Far Rockaway lies; as a boy he kept a laboratory in his room there and rigged up his own burglar alarm.

Q 04/05

As a teenager in the Depression, Feynman earned pocket money in his neighbourhood by repairing what?

A) Bicycles

B) Clocks

C) Radios

D) Sewing machines

Answer · why

C) Radios

Radios: people who could not afford a repairman hired the boy instead, and one customer was astonished to watch him fix a set by pacing up and down an...

Q 05/05

What did Feynman's father Melville do for a living for most of Richard's childhood?

A) Taught chemistry

B) Sold insurance

C) Ran a pharmacy

D) Sold uniforms

Answer · why

D) Sold uniforms

Sold uniforms, as a sales manager, after his own business ventures had failed; science was his real passion, and he wanted his first son to become a s...