Editing Richard Feynman (section)

=== Recognition and awards ===
The first public recognition of Feynman's work came in 1954, when [[Lewis Strauss]], the chairman of the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] (AEC) notified him that he had won the Albert Einstein Award, which was worth $15,000 and came with a gold medal. Because of Strauss's actions in stripping Oppenheimer of his security clearance, Feynman was reluctant to accept the award, but [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]] cautioned him: "You should never turn a man's generosity as a sword against him. Any virtue that a man has, even if he has many vices, should not be used as a tool against him."{{sfn|Gleick|1992|pp=295–296}} It was followed by the AEC's [[Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award]] in 1962.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://science.osti.gov/lawrence/Award-Laureates/1960s/feynman |title=LAWRENCE Richard P. Feynman, 196... |date=December 28, 2010 |publisher=United States Department of Energy |access-date=June 10, 2023}}</ref> Schwinger, Tomonaga and Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 |publisher=The Nobel Foundation |access-date=July 15, 2016 |archive-date=April 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407012150/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1965#Foreign Members|Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1965]],<ref name="nobelbio" /><ref name=frs>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mehra | first1 = J.| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2002.0007 | title = Richard Phillips Feynman 11 May 1918&nbsp;– 15 February 1988 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 48 | pages = 97–128 | year = 2002 | s2cid = 62221940}}</ref> received the [[Oersted Medal]] in 1972,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aapt.org/programs/awards/oersted.cfm |title=The Oersted Medal |publisher=[[American Association of Physics Teachers]] |access-date=June 10, 2023}}</ref> and the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=126 |title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details |publisher=[[National Science Foundation]] |access-date=July 15, 2016 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505210032/https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=126 |url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected a [[Member of the National Academy of Sciences]], but ultimately resigned<ref name="elitist">{{cite journal|url=https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v8n3/toumey.html|publisher=[[Virginia Tech]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319115654/https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v8n3/toumey.html|archive-date=March 19, 2019|first=Chris |last=Toumey|year=2005|title=SPT v8n3 – Reviews – Feynman Unprocessed|issue=3|journal=Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology|volume=8|doi=10.5840/techne20058314}}</ref><ref name=f1>{{Cite book|title=Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the letters of Richard P. Feynman|date=2005|publisher=Basic Books|first1=Richard|last1=Feynman|last2=Feynman|first2= Michelle|isbn=0738206369|location=New York|oclc=57393623}}</ref> and is no longer listed by them.{{sfn|Feynman|1999|p=13}} Schwinger called him "an honest man, the outstanding intuitionist of our age, and a prime example of what may lie in store for anyone who dares follow the beat of a different drum."{{sfnp| Gleick| 1992| p=16}}