The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Richard P. Feynman
Feynman, Richard P.

    /fayn'mn/ 1918-1988.  A US
   physicist, computer scientist and author who graduated from
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton.
   Feynmane was a key figure in helping Oppenheimer and team
   develop atomic bomb.  In 1950 he became a professor at
   Caltech and in 1965 became Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
   for QED (quantum electrodynamics).  He was a primary figure in
   "solving" the Challenger disaster O-ring problem.  He
   "rediscovered" the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tuva.
   The 2001 film "Infinity" about Feynman's early life featured
   Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette.  In 2001, "QED", a
   play about Feynman's life featuring Alan Alda opened.

   (http://www.feynman.com/).

   (2008-01-14)