The Life of Richard Feynman Richard Feynman was a physicist who was born in Far Rockaway, near New York City, in 1918. He lived there until he left to attend university at the Michigan Institute of Technology. He studied there for four years, and then went to Princeton University where he finished his studies. After that, he moved to Los Alamos, Cornell, and lastly Caltech. During this time, he was married three times. He died in 1988 from cancer. Feynman's Work on the Bomb After Feynman had graduated, at 24 years of age, he was recruited as one of the many scientists to work on the construction of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos; he had alre