| Richard Feynman  AKA Richard Phillips Feynman
Born: 11-May-1918
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 15-Feb-1988
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - Stomach
Remains: Buried, Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Surely he's joking Father: Melville Feynman
Mother: Lucille Phillips
Sister: Joan (younger)
Wife: Arline Greenbaum (d. Jul-1945, tuberculosis)
Wife: Mary Lou
Wife: Gweneth Howarth
Son: Carl Richard (b. 22-Apr-1961)
Daughter: Michelle Catherine (adopted, b. 13-Aug-1968)
High School: Far Rockaway High School, Queens, NY
University: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1939)
University: PhD, Princeton University (1942)
Professor: Cornell University (1945-50)
Professor: California Institute of Technology (1950-)
Manhattan Project
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Physical Society
Association for Cultural Evolution Board of Directors
Federation of American Scientists
Royal Society
Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity
Nobel Prize for Physics 1965 (shared)
E. O. Lawrence Award 1962
Oersted Medal 1972
National Medal of Science
Polish Ancestry Maternal
Russian Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry
Esalen Speaker
Asteroid Namesake 7495 Feynman
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