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

His pictorial diagrams for the theory's calculations are still used throughout particle physics.

Q 03/05

In which borough of New York City was Feynman born in 1918?

A) Brooklyn

B) Queens

C) The Bronx

D) Manhattan

Answer · why

B) Queens

The family later moved to Far Rockaway, where he ran a home laboratory and repaired radios.

Q 04/05

Feynman was a late talker. He did not speak until after which birthday?

A) His first

B) His second

C) His fifth

D) His third

Answer · why

D) His third

As an adult his New York accent was so strong that Pauli and Bethe said he talked like a 'bum'.

Q 05/05

What did Feynman's father Melville do for a living?

A) Taught chemistry

B) Repaired radios

C) Ran a pharmacy

D) Sold uniforms

Answer · why

D) Sold uniforms

He declared 'If it's a boy, he'll be a scientist' before Richard was born, and taught him to question orthodox thinking.