CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the author of “The Making of a Scientist”?
A
Dr. Richard Feynman
B
Feynman’s father
C
Steve Williamson
D
Mrs. Girouard
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Richard Feynman was a Nobel-prizewinning US theoretical physicist. Famed for his brilliant mind and mercurial personality, his main work was in … quantum physics and particle physics, where he is particularly known for the Feynman diagram, a way of depicting particle processes graphically.

Detailed explanation-2: -Born May 11, 1918, Far Rockaway, N. Y; died February 15, 1988, Los Angeles, Calif.; Nobel Laureate, who, in the late 1940s, first identified computer addiction as a disease. Education: BS, theoretical physics, MIT, 1939; PhD, theoretical physics, Princeton University, 1942.

Detailed explanation-3: -"There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics” was a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at the annual American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fifty years ago on October 21, 1965, Caltech’s Richard Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. The three independently brokered workable marriages between 20th-century quantum mechanics and 19th-century electromagnetic field theory.

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