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American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

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11 May 1918

Richard Feynman, whose 1949 positron letter Neville cited in his lectures, was born May 11, 1918.

Person: Richard Feynman

1949

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.

8 April 1949

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.

May 1949
Neville recounts that in May 1949, in Milwaukee, he described to an Allis-Chalmers physicist the same forward-and-back movement in time and imagination that Richard Feynman later described for the pos
1965

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.

17 February 1967
Neville tells the audience about reading Richard Feynman's 1949 Nobel-winning paper on the positron and quotes two passages from it.
May 1970
In Milwaukee in May 1949 Neville told a leading Allis Chalmers physicist that a man can go into a state not yet realised, return, and move across a bridge of incidents to its fulfilment, and that the
15 February 1988

Richard Feynman, whose 1949 positron letter Neville cited in his lectures, died February 15, 1988.

Person: Richard Feynman