It was May 11 in the year 1918 when Richard P.Feynman was born in Brooklyn. As a child, Feynman was always fascinated with puzzles and anything relating to science. Feynman would take all he learned and turn it into something he could call his own.

During World War II, he was one of the scientist working on the atom bomb at Los Alamos. There he found ways to crack into top-secret safes (he would do this for his own childish amusement). In 1939, he received his Bachelor of Science Degree at MIT and his Doctorate from the University of Princeton in 1942 That same year he got married to Arlene Greenbaum, his childhood sweetheart. Arlene died three years later as a result of tuberculosis in her lymphatic system. It took many years for Feynman to get over Arlene’s death; however, he did remarry soon. Louise Bell was his next wife, but they divorced soon after. Years later he was invited by other scientists to speak at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, there he spoke of Nanotechnology; the science in which things are created smaller than atoms. Throughout the speech he challenged the audience to create an electrical motor of a 1/64 inch cube, and reduce a page by a factor of 25,000 in each side. Then in 1960, he married Gweneth Howarth, this marriage was successful and the two had a fulfilling relationship.

In 1986, Feynman was put in charged of investigating the cause for the explosion of the space shuttle “Challenger.” Days later he identified the problem, the day before the launch the weather was extremely cold, this caused ice to build on the shuttle. The ice caused the rubber to lose its resilience, thus it caused the shuttle to explode.

Feynman loved science so much that he was almost cruel to others who were not as dedicated as him. With this in mind, Feynman decided to teach at the California Institute of Technology. He did this until his death from cancer in 1988.(PageWise, Inc).