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Below is another jQuery plugin called accordion. It is a great way to organize, expand, contract and limit displayed content. The example below uses the biography of American physicist Richard Phillips Feynman.

  • Richard Feynman - An Overview

    • Primary Recognition

      Richard Phillips Feynman (IPA: /ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model).

    • Public Work

      He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing,[3] and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale).[4] He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at Caltech.

    • Popular Acomplishments

      Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics in both his books and lectures, notably a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, and The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman is also known for his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, and through books about him, such as Tuva or Bust! He was also known as a prankster, juggler, and a proud amateur painter and bongo player. Richard Feynman was regarded as an eccentric and a free spirit. He liked to pursue multiple seemingly independent paths, such as biology, art, percussion, Maya hieroglyphs, and lock picking.
    Richard Phillips Feynman was born on May 11, 1918,[6] in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.[7] His family was Jewish, but not ritualistic in their practice of Judaism. Feynman (in common with other famous physicists, Edward Teller, Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein) was a late talker; by his third birthday he had yet to utter a single word. The young Feynman was heavily influenced by his father, Melville, who encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking. From his mother, Lucille, he gained the sense of humor that he had throughout his life. As a child, he delighted in repairing radios and had a talent for engineering. His sister Joan also became a professional physicist. For more information visit Feynman Wiki page.

  • Early Career

    After the war, Feynman followed Hans Bethe to Cornell University and joined the faculty, rejecting an offer from the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton.[10] He taught theoretical physics at Cornell from 1945 to 1950. Suffering from a temporary depression following the destruction of Hiroshima stemming from his work on the Manhattan Project, he focused on enjoying the complex problems of physics for himself rather than for utilitarian purposes. Despairing that he had burned out, he turned to less immediately practical but more entertaining problems.[11] One of these was analyzing the physics of a twirling, nutating dish as it is moving through the air. His work during this period, which used equations of rotation to express various spinning speeds would soon be of paramount importance to his Nobel Prize winning work. He was therefore surprised to be offered professorships from renowned universities. He eventually chose the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, California. This was in spite of being offered a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University which included such distinguished faculty members as Albert Einstein.

  • Commemorations

    On May 4, 2005, the United States Postal Service issued the American Scientists commemorative set of four 37-cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations. The scientists depicted were Richard Feynman, John von Neumann, Barbara McClintock, and Josiah Willard Gibbs. Feynman's stamp, sepia-toned, features a photograph of a 30-something Feynman and eight small Feynman diagrams. The main building for the Computing Division at Fermilab, the FCC, is named in his honor: The "Feynman Computing Center".[36]