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费恩曼

費恩曼
Fèi'ēnmàn
proper noun #34,781

Meanings

  1. 1 Feynman (surname)
  2. 2 Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in physics 1965

About Richard Feynman

1918–1988 · 科学家 scientist

American physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for quantum electrodynamics and drew the Feynman diagrams. He showed why the Challenger shuttle broke up, and his memoir Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is popular in China.

Also called  费曼、 理查德·费曼

Examples

HSK 5
他读了《别闹了，费恩曼先生！》之后爱上了科学。
Tā dú le 《 Bié nào le, Fèi'ēnmàn xiānsheng! 》 zhīhòu àishàng le kēxué.
He fell in love with science after reading 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!'
HSK 7-9
费恩曼以幽默的物理讲座闻名于世。
Fèi'ēnmàn yǐ yōumò de wùlǐ jiǎngzuò wénmíng-yúshì.
Feynman was famous worldwide for his humorous physics lectures.

Tips

culture
Most Chinese texts now write him 费曼, and the name lives on in 费曼学习法, the 'Feynman technique' of learning a topic by explaining it in plain words as if teaching it, a popular study buzzword in China.
memory
Phonetic match: 费 (fèi) for 'Fey-', 恩 (ēn) for '-n-', 曼 (màn) for '-man'. The same characters appear in many Western names - 恩 and 曼 are go-to syllables for 'en' and 'man'.

Stroke Order

费 fèi
恩 ēn
曼 màn