Feynman has been one of the most important scientists in the history of physics in the 20th century. He was an enthusiastic popularizer of physics through books and lectures. He collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide audience in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the group that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
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