American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
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Richard Feynman, whose 1949 positron letter Neville cited in his lectures, was born May 11, 1918.
Person: Richard Feynman
In a 1949 lecture series in Milwaukee, Neville met the head chemist at Allis-Chalmers, Professor Imhoff, and debated with him about entropy and the alterability of the past.
Feynman's paper "The Theory of Positrons," cited in Neville's lectures as evidence of time's reversibility, was received by Physical Review on April 8, 1949.
The article's biographical note states Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, for work on quantum electrodynamics.
Richard Feynman, whose 1949 positron letter Neville cited in his lectures, died February 15, 1988.
Person: Richard Feynman