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Feyman was too young for the really fundamental work on quantum mechanics. He won his Nobel prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. However, he created the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, which can be thought of as another way of describing quantum mechanics.


It's worth mentioning that the path-integral formulation had a seed in Dirac: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation


yeah, I was thinking, uh, the path-integral formulation?? Which IIRC is still kind of mathematically ill-defined, but still.

making a fundamental discovery is not necessary to be a 'great mind', I think. As the man himself said, 'what I cannot create, I do not understand'.




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