The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat

Richard P. Feynman

1918–1988 · American theoretical physicist

• Nobel laureate
• Albert Einstein Award
• National Medal of Science
• Professor at Caltech

Profession

Physicist, Professor

Worked at

Caltech, Cornell, Manhattan Project

Studied at

Princeton, MIT

Studied under

John Archibald Wheeler

Prizes

Albert Einstein Award (1954), Nobel Prize in Physics (1965), National Medal of Science (1979), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1962), Oersted Medal (1972), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965), Fellow of the American Physical Society, Putnam Fellow (1939), Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1973)

Cracked safes at Los Alamos for fun while working on the bomb.

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Robert B. Leighton

1919–1997 · American astronomer

• Professor at Caltech

Profession

Physicist, Astrophysicist, Astronomer, Professor

Worked at

Caltech

Studied at

Caltech

Studied under

Paul Sophus Epstein, William Vermillion Houston

Prizes

Rumford Prize (1986), Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1972), James Craig Watson Medal (1986)

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Matthew Sands

1919–2014 · American accelerator physicist

• Professor at Caltech
• Professor at MIT
• Professor at Stanford

Profession

Physicist, Professor

Worked at

Caltech, Stanford, MIT, University of California, Santa Cruz

Studied at

MIT, Rice University, Clark University

Studied under

Bruno Rossi

Prizes

Fellow of the American Physical Society, Robert R. Wilson Prize (1998)

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