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56 of history's most influential scientists. Nobel laureates, groundbreaking researchers, and discoverers who advanced human knowledge.

Richard Feynman

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Richard Feynman

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Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for quantum electrodynamics. He showed the cause of the Challenger disaster by demonstrating O-rings failed in cold temperatures. He worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, developed Feynman diagrams, and was a teacher and author.

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