Feynman, Richard Phillips
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishFeynman, Richard PhillipsRichard Phillips FeynmanFeyn‧man, Richard Phillips /ˈfaɪnmən/ (1918–88) a US scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work on radioactivity, and was one of the people given the job of trying to discover why the Challenger space shuttle exploded. He also wrote a very popular book about his life.