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He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an undergraduate, and he received his Ph. In he married his high school sweetheart, Arline Greenbaum, despite the fact that she was ill with tuberculosis. That same year Richard was asked to join the Manhattan Project; he accepted and went on to become a group leader at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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Arline died in After the war, he became a professor of theoretical physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In he joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and spent the remainder of his career there. He had a brief marriage in the early fifties to Mary Louise Bell that did not work out. He married Gweneth Howarth in Their son Carl was born in , and their daughter Michelle was born in Between Feynman gave a series of lectures on introductory physics for freshmen and the following year, sophomores, at Caltech.

The series was edited and published as The Feynman Lectures of Physics, which is thought to be the most popular physics book ever written.