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Richard Feynman is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 2, 2004, and on May 11, 2018.

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Date	Process	Result
August 18, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 17, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
June 15, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
October 4, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted
August 5, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed
January 31, 2017	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 31, 2016. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Richard Feynman's work The Feynman Lectures on Physics was co-authored by Matthew Sands and Robert B. Leighton?
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 11, 2024.
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